Encroached Quotes

#1. Sunset encroached upon daylight like a powder burst from the mouth of a crimson cannon - orange and gold ribbons shot forth to wage a battle against the clouds. The western horizon was obscured by a glow like a living thing.

Marsha Ward

#2. He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him could not be so great for the world was already at some certain distance and if it were not death's terrain he encroached upon in his darkness then whose?

Cormac McCarthy

#3. Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers.

Daphne Du Maurier

#4. Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Petro Poroshenko

#6. My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

Ranbir Kapoor

#7. I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

Brad Alan Lewis

#8. In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

Avi

#9. He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Franz Kafka

#10. If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Thomas Sowell

#12. The stock market and economy are two different things.

Milton Friedman

#13. My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter.

Ralph Goings

#14. Me, I couldn't give two halves of a quarter fuck when I was alive. I tried, I swear. It just wasn't going to happen. In fact, the only thing I truly cared about was ensuring that I could comfortably not care without repercussion, and I was damn good at it.

C.L. Allen

#15. Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#16. I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Magic Johnson

#17. You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

Neil Diamond

#18. The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

Suneeta Misra

#19. He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

Stephen R. Covey