Mounting Quotes

59 quotes by 58 authors

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. — John Boehner
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that… — Al Gore
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession… — Conrad Black
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But… — Van Jones
I'm always fearful. â€¦ Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes,… — Judi Dench
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.… — Jane Jacobs
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being… — Brian Ferneyhough
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
Climate change is a crucial issue in todays global agenda. Hopefully, we will wake up to this reality, sooner rather than later. Pressure has been… — Joseph Muscat
Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand… — Ronald J. Sider
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They… — Alexander Pope
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and… — Henry Hazlitt
My government will continue mounting a real fight against the trafficking of marijuana and all other drugs. — Enrique Pena Nieto
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting… — William Cronon

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