Famous quotes containing the words contingency, response and/or group:
“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journeys fits and starts, rehearses lifes own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“Women had to deal with the mens response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the womens response as men want more time in.”
—Kyle D. Pruett (20th century)
“There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)