Encroaches Quotes

#1. The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

Hannah Kent

#2. A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Gabriel Marcel

#3. We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

Mitt Romney

#4. It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

Theodore Kaczynski

#5. By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

Justus Von Liebig

#6. Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Pasquier Quesnel

#7. And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

John Stuart Mill

#8. Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Samuel Johnson

#9. There is nothing", answered he, "which requires more immediate notice than impertinence, for it ever encroaches when it is tolerated.

Fanny Burney

#10. My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy ... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'

Ella Eyre

#11. Graystripe's gone? Firestar whispered. He sat down, drawing his tail around him. Leafpaw's legs trembled. Her father had never seemed so far away, so far beyond her reach to comfort him.

Erin Hunter

#12. You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.

John F. Carlson

#13. There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. The only thing a woman needs to know in this world is that they're enough.

Dannika Dark

#15. Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

Mark Steyn

#17. Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.

Terry Blakeman

#18. Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

Edward Hirsch