Accelerative Quotes

#1. Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

David McCullough

#2. God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.

Mark Batterson

#3. Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

Wesley Stace

#4. The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Christina Stead

#5. That morning, while Mom had fought with Grandpa, Aunt Sel had asked me to bring her a glass of wine - it was nine in the morning - and when I'd delivered it she'd handed me a ten dollar bill and said, I dislike children, but I do appreciate decent service.

Daryl Gregory

#6. If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

Brene Brown

#7. I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#8. Kai's date to the Commonwealth's ball last year, and it had been ... terrifying. But also extraordinary. The people of Earth still weren't sure what to do with the fact that one of their beloved leaders was not so secretly dating a Lunar, and a cyborg Lunar at that.

Marissa Meyer

#9. What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

Ruth Ozeki

#10. Pitch Perfect. To

Zoe Sugg

#11. Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.

Joy Behar

#12. Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. What you achieve, endures throughout time

Rafik Schami

#14. Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

Kamala Markandaya