Piling Up Quotes

#1. We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.

Paul Samuelson

#2. Around us, the disembodied human limbs were piling up, forming a circle around the fountain, fusing themselves to each other like Satan's LEGO set.

David Wong

#3. I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

Dean Koontz

#4. Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

K. Patricia Cross

#5. Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Sexual harassment cases are piling up. The whole school's going love crazy!

Veronica Purcell

#7. And so it went, sand piling up to the heavens and homes sinking toward hell.

Hugh Howey

#8. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

George Orwell

#9. The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us. pg9

Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed

#10. Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.

Lucy Wood

#11. Those body bags kept piling up.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about it. I still can't eat fried chicken.

Sarah Lotz

#12. The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#13. Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Joni Mitchell

#14. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dick Armey

#15. Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

Robin Hobb

#17. A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

Thomas Moore

#18. But I want to be clear that this does not mean we are saved by piling up enough good works to satisfy God. No, it means that any authentic and genuine commitment to Christ will be accompanied by demonstrable evidence of a transformed life.

Richard Stearns

#19. Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.

Carl Rogers

#20. I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.

Henry James

#21. I'm no mathematics whizz, but even I know that when the variables start piling up, it's time to ditch the equation and see if you can find a cheat sheet.

David E. Manuel

#22. For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Horace

#23. The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

#24. I learned that forgiveness isn't an instant thing; it must be done on a regular basis otherwise anger would keep piling up and affect our personal vibration negatively.

Hina Hashmi

#25. As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#26. Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

John Dos Passos

#27. The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

Donella Meadows

#28. All the little things he does are piling up and turning into an emotion I don't understand.

Mika Yamamori

#29. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

#30. It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

Katharine Kolcaba

#31. Suddenly your whole life is like a car crash, no brakes, gaining momentum, piling up behind you. Your mistakes, missed opportunities, all the time you've wasted, a twisted, rusting heap of scrap metal that can't be salvaged. Overwhelming you. Crushing you.

Debbie Howells

#32. Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark
bottom of a volcanic lake.

Haruki Murakami

#33. I could tell I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.

H.P. Lovecraft

#34. There is mud everywhere, slicking the asphalt and piling up in corners along with the detritus of daily life: pop cans, cigarette butts, used condoms and bullet shells.

Isaac Marion

#35. There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Sara Sheridan

#36. The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale.

Helen Hayes

#37. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself.

Haruki Murakami

#38. I've got drinks piling up on my desk and a stack of pills I haven't even opened yet!

Karen Walker

#39. I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

Robertson Davies

#40. I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara Hepworth

#41. He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Jorge Luis Borges

#42. The question marks were piling up and I wasn't even ?uestlove yet. But Amir had questions, too, and the fishhook of the punctuation wasn't catching anything, and it wasn't straightening out either.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#43. How I changed my mind about women in leadership came through the gradual piling up of anomalies against a powerful but unsustainable paradigm.

Alan F. Johnson

#44. As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.

Gregg Olsen

#45. I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

Marc Faber

#46. Both black and gleaming, ostentatiously so. I was acutely aware of our luggage piling up on the platform, matching and initialed and gleaming with comfortable wealth. I couldn't help but

Melanie Benjamin

#47. I think jalapeno sounds like a bunch of letters piling into a beat-up old word to get tacos.

Edmond Manning

#48. Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

David Tudor