Accumulated Quotes

194 Accumulated quotes by 174 unique authors

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated… — Henry Miller
Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be… — Viggo Mortensen
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. — Manuel Puig
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. — John Tyler
The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues,… — J P Donleavy
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our… — Anne Fadiman
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next… — Markus Zusak
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. — Douglas Adams
Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights… — Sam Harris
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,… — Margaret Atwood
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36) — Markus Zusak
..........books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient… — William Wordsworth
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom. — Ray Bradbury
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the… — Maggie Stiefvater
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there… — Jack Kerouac
Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy… — Carl Sagan

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