Quotes About Hoarding

If silver is used and gold is hoarded than how can gold be of higher monetary value.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

I've been collecting jerseys and shoes my whole career.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Collection is an addiction.

I'm a collector of everything.

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

Hoarding is both unnecessary and an affront to God, who is perfectly capable of providing abundantly for those who trust in him.

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.

I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

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.