Accumulated Quotes

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it`s completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I`ve read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person`s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.

I`m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

(Over the years, Florian accumulated quite a collection of rare RAMONES items, including posters, tour t-shirts and photos.) (There are) things that I`m amazed that he has, ... I wish (late members) Johnny , Joey , and Dee Dee were alive to see this, because they would be very flattered like I am.

Tearing that building down would be yet another loss to the city of Utica, ... My problem is, will I be able to get enough investors to get the $50,000 accumulated?

With the lifting of restrictions and with the talent pool we have accumulated, we can expect that the growth will speed up a bit.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn`t forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

Congress acknowledged that society`s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still look at making a mistake as embarrassing, wrong, an act bordering on sin. If you're making mistakes, it means you're doing new things, taking risks, stretching yourself. You're growing, learning. And isn`t the journey, the experience, not the destination, what life is all about?

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Congress acknowledged that society`s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.