Accumulating Quotes
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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Today's inflation figures have boosted the dollar across the board on accumulating chances that the Fed will raise interest rates as early as this summer. (Quote by - Ashraf Laidi)
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. (Quote by - Kenneth Scott Latourette)
The fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores of coal and oil that have been accumulating in the earth during hundreds of millions of years. . . . It is to be hoped that before then other sources of energy will have been developed. . . . Whether a convenient substitute for the present fuels is found or not, there can be no doubt that there will have to be a great change in ways of life. This change may justly be called a revolution, but it differs from all the preceding ones in that there is no likelihood of its leadings to increases of population, but even perhaps to the reverse. (Quote by - Charles Galton Darwin)
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor. (Quote by - Henry Theodore Tuckerman)
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
Evidence is accumulating that growth in the fourth quarter slowed in the euro zone. Two-year bonds should profit from this development. (Quote by - Bernd Weidensteiner)
Once you decide how you'd like your retirement to look and identify why you're saving, you'll realize it's more than just accumulating dollars on paper. (Quote by - Barry Vosler)
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating and selecting and reorganizing its own materials. (Quote by - Justice Joseph Story)
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
An accumulating body of evidence suggests that this translates into health benefits for those who consume cocoa or dark chocolate with a cocoa content of 60 percent or more. Benefits have been seen in endothelial function, a measure of blood vessel health, blood pressure, insulin levels, and serum lipids. (Quote by - Dr. David L. Katz)
We need this because I believe the current profits are the highest they have ever been, and at the same time the oil companies are accumulating all this gain, there is a lot of pain for consumers. (Quote by - Byron Dorgan)
I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs. (Quote by - Unknown)
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted. In time, you are made to realize that the kindness done you is become a curse and you wish it had not happened. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force. (Quote by - Loren Thompson)
A unification of fact and value is an excellent definition, it seems to me, of any given word in any given language. So words bloom into novels ... and the large problem grows out of the small: to assemble words so they work together with something approaching the same force of unified fact and value that each word has accrued in its long, accumulating passage through history. Words are the model, words are the tools, words are the boards, words are the nails. (Quote by - Richard Rhodes)
Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment. (Quote by - Thomas J. Powell)
The market is accumulating strength, watching oil prices and awaiting the U.S. Fed's rate meeting and Brazil's own rate decision. Until next week, investors may be just slightly reviewing their positions. (Quote by - Andre Caminada)
It's a great cost-cutting story right now. You've got very good management, excellent links into the consumer. And they've been there with the electronic banking for a long, long while. So, that's one that we definitely would be accumulating at these prices. (Quote by - Charles White)
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
The fairways were accumulating so much water where it was unfair to the players trying to take casual water relief. They were having to go a long way to find a dry spot, and that kind of changes the game a little bit. That's when we threw in the towel. (Quote by - Ben Nelson)
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief. (Quote by - Gloria Estefan)
This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate. (Quote by - John Butler)
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. (Quote by - Charles Babbage)
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them. (Quote by - Robert Menzies)
It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful. (Quote by - Buddha)
The original root of the word information is the Latin word informare, which means to fashion, shape, or create, to give form to. Information is an idea that has been given a form, such as the spoken or written word. It is a means of representing an image or thought so that it can be communicated from one mind to another rather than worrying about all the information afloat in the world, we must ask ourselves what matters to us, what do we want to know. It's having ideas and learning to deal with issues that is important, not accumulating lots and lots of data. (Quote by - Roszak, Theordore)
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Quote by - Clarence Day)
