Increasingly Quotes
749 Increasingly quotes by 614 unique authors
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy…
— Frank Herbert
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If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect…
— Susan J. Douglas
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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.
— David F. Wells
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was…
— Douglas Adams
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Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
— Michael Crichton
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make…
— Ann Druyan
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In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."…
— Richelle Mead
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Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader…
— Lois Duncan
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Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know…
— Lorrie Moore
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As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm…
— Eric Weiner
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I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I…
— Douglas Coupland
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The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so…
— Carl Sagan
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Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the…
— Pentti Linkola
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly…
— William Gibson
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All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century…
— C.S. Lewis
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles…
— Jared Diamond
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Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common. " "Totally awesome hair?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
— Bill Mollison
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The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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