"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction……" — Douglas Adams
"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this."
More Accumulated Quotes
- 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