Top 90 Quotes About Hoarding
#1. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Samuel Johnson
#2. The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.
Russell Kirk
#4. Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.
Kevin Rooney
#6. I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Louis L'Amour
#7. Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.
K.D. Harp
#9. We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
Tom Chatfield
#10. Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.
Donna Tartt
#11. Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)
Douglas Coupland
#12. And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone's private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.
Nora Roberts
#13. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."
Lino Rulli
#14. When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
Cara Delevingne
#15. The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you.
Paul Arden
#16. Imagine a bunch of swashbuckling programmers pillaging and hoarding software gems from rich codebases around the seven software seas. Daring. But dangerous. It's coding with the bad hygiene of a salty seaman.
Anonymous
#17. Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?"
"I have spies everywhere."
I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate.
"She had tea with Mahon's wife." Andrea said.
Aunt B looked at her. "You and I need to work on your air of mystery.
Ilona Andrews
#19. Most rebellions and revolutions end up with the oppressed group coming to power and inflicting the same evils they endured on some new group that they are now oppressing, I argued. Violence, hoarding power and resources, that's the basic human M.O.
Norman Ollestad
#20. Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
David Mitchell
#21. The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair.
Francesca Zappia
#22. By giving away we feel rich; by hoarding we feel poor.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
Ingrid Newkirk
#24. There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.
Rohinton Mistry
#25. It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.
David Weinberger
#26. It is not belief to say God exists and then continue sinning and hoarding your wealth while innocent people die of starvation. When belief does not control your most important decisions, it is not belief in the underlying reality, it is belief in the usefulness of believing.
Scott Adams
#27. Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'
Rob Manuel
#28. Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.
Richard B. Hays
#29. God has given us two hands
one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
Billy Graham
#30. I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.
Chris Jordan
#31. Americans are desperately, here on the West Coast, buying up and hoarding iodine pills ... Isn't it great that in a land that is divided between conservative morons and liberal pussies, somehow we have managed to find a way to pull together and behave like moronic pussies?
Bill Maher
#33. Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.
David Jeremiah
#34. Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self- reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold- hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
Paula Nelson
#35. Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.
Tom Peters
#36. Why were we all hoarding love, stockpiling it, when it was all around us, moving in and out of us like the air, if only we could feel it?
Sharon Guskin
#37. The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
Timothy Noah
#38. I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
Naya Rivera
#39. I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
#40. Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#41. Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
#42. Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.
Joseph Badaracco
#43. Love is sharing; greed is hoarding. Greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return; it is unconditional sharing.
Osho
#44. He was now in the business of hoarding pleasure.
Erin Kellison
#45. It's so hard to believe that someone might want me - all of me - fucked-up sexual desire, tangled family history, book-hoarding tendencies, everything.
Lilah Pace
#46. My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.
Andy Behrman
#47. Shake off the tonnage of old genetics, nitpicking naysayers and hand-me-down Egos hoarding junk in the back of your mind.
Be a Friday night liberty set loose on Monday morning.
Laurie Perez
#48. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.
Stewart Butterfield
#49. If you have more than a couple of kids, you're not parents - you're hoarders. And hoarding is a disorder, not a gift.
Joan Rivers
#50. Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
Jacqueline Carey
#51. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford
#53. Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.
Susan Sontag
#54. Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
Frederick Buechner
#55. Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetime
when they can't take their riches
to the grave.
- Gwallawg is Other
Taliesin
#56. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.
Penn Williamson
#58. God owns everything and gives us all things to enjoy. He is a good shepherd to us, his little flock. Trust him, not stuff. Move from the fear of scarcity to the comfort of provision. Less hoarding, more sharing. "Do good . . . be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share.
Max Lucado
#59. People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.
Robyn Davidson
#60. It's really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.
Kaira Rouda
#61. The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development.
Pope Benedict XVI
#62. Hoarding isn't about how much stuff someone has, it's about how they process those things.
Matt Paxton
#63. We are hoarding potentials so great they are just about unimaginable.
Jacob T. Schwartz
#64. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
Michel De Montaigne
#65. Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.
Saadi
#66. One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.
Watchman Nee
#67. Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.
Zibby Oneal
#69. People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Laurence Sterne
#70. God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
Randy Alcorn
#71. I throw away stacks of newspaper and catalogs, bills that probably went unpaid for years, plastic bags of hangers and wires, and the hockey stick.
Holly Black
#72. God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.
William MacDonald
#73. Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
Randy Alcorn
#74. When I was a kid and brought friends over , I was defiantly proud of the chaos. I liked that I knew how to jump over the piles and the shattered glass while they stumbled. Now it just seems like an ocean of crazy that I have no way to explain.
Holly Black
#75. Your home is living space, not storage space.
Francine Jay
#76. I'm beginning to realise that I'm either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I'm probably both.
Fennel Hudson
#77. What do you do with all your money?"
"Me and the French hoard gold.
Dashiell Hammett
#78. We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#79. We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.
Margaret Atwood
#80. By the time dad died, the junk was so piled up that there were tunnels instead of rooms.
Holly Black
#81. So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when somebody accumulates more money than they can spend? They're both hoarders.
David Wong
#82. Our recent research indicates that an absence of warmth, acceptance, and support characterizes the early family life of many hoarders, perhaps leading them to form strong emotional attachments to possessions.
Gail Steketee
#83. The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they'd be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.
Sarah Noffke
#84. At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.
Nicole Krauss
#85. As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
Barbara W. Tuchman
#86. I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
Sara Sheridan
#89. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.
Shane Claiborne
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