Accessions Quotes

#1. History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

Charles Darwin

#2. Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

Martin Schulz

#3. The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.

Thorstein Veblen

#4. No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

John Lennon

#5. We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

Li Peng

#6. The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

George Saunders

#7. Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Vance Havner

#8. And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married ... ?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

Cassandra Clare

#9. How did people steal before computers? - Dogbert

Scott Adams

#10. Nothing has happened until it happens

Robert Holdstock

#11. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the love of their country.

David Scott

#12. When she first came here she used to think there was somebody up in those big buildings who knows what's going on here. They would never come down and talk to her. After a while she found out nobody knows what's going on.

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. You talk like Jean. She says that we shouldn't make plans
and then pray for God to bless those plans, but rather ask Him
what His will is and what we need to do to help carry it out.

Donald James Parker

#14. Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.

Jeanette Jenkins

#15. Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

John Ortberg

#17. In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

James Gleick

#18. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.

Glennon Doyle Melton