"How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of……" — Charles Darwin

More Accumulated Quotes

This quote is filed under Accumulated Quotes, one of 194 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
• One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
• The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been… — Abraham Flexner
• Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist… — Roger Casement
• What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. — Deepak Chopra
• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
• What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a… — Joseph Conrad
• Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have… — Rajneesh
• Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it… — Charles Tilly

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