Lax Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words lax and/or conditions:

“We want nights
Of vague adventure, lips lax wet and warm,
Bees in the stomach, sweat across the brow. Now.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)