Accreted Quotes

#1. We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

E. M. Forster

#2. Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

Mohsin Hamid

#3. It's plausibly a case of any kind of system that's been under enormous silent pressure for some time, that when the system finally blows the accreted pressure's such that it's almost always a full-scale eruption.

David Foster Wallace

#4. All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.

Nouman Ali Khan

#6. And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Julius Erving

#7. When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered.

Harper Lee

#9. Do you remember? Do you remember being solid? Do you remember life before the hole? Before you were empty and needed to be filled? There was a time when everything was enough. There was a time you didn't try to get out of your own skin. Remember?

Amy Reed

#10. Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Doris Lessing

#11. A life hidden behind the veil of excuses leaves behind a blank page, but a life with the brilliant light of purpose shone upon it fills every page with wisdom.

Farshad Asl

#12. I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.

Brie Larson

#13. When you can see it, it's all that you can see; when it's not there anymore, you can see it thousands of times in the distance. What is it?

Anonymous

#14. States, as great engines, move slowly.

Francis Bacon

#15. Shut your trap, boy. You are hereby disinherited. Davies! I want a new will.

Julie Klassen

#16. The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

Chuck Inglish

#17. It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

H.P. Lovecraft