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Quotes About Mounting

However, it was also the mounting discontent among Africn Americans, feminists, and gay activists that challenged the widespread acceptance and commercial exploitation of the governing beauty ideals.
~ Kathy Peiss
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
~ Graham Swift
Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.
~ Pete Domenici
Our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.
~ Tariq Ali
I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that.
~ Ayushmann Khurrana
Questions about Trump's psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.
~ George T. Conway III
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
~ Frits Zernike
They mounted, pistols in hand, saps of rawhide and riverrock looped about their wrists like the implements of some primitive equestrian game. Glanton looked back at them and then nudged forth his horse.
~ Cormac McCarthy
While some of his men were mounting a machine gun in the entrance, Hitler jumped up on a table and to attract attention fired a revolver shot toward the ceiling.
~ William L. Shirer
In a mounting panic the samnite hefted his rifle and delivered a blast straight to Skullhammer's chest, point blank. Once again, torment and debilitation failed to ensue. 'Well, this is awkward,' said Juno.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
We cannot go through life strong and fresh on constant express trains with ten minutes for lunch: we must have quiet hours, secret places of the Most High, times of waiting upon the Lord, when we renew our strength and learn to mount up on wings as eagles, and then come back to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really passionate about the work you're doing in a world of mounting pressure, you're going to experience more and more stress. You're going to burn out. You're going to become marginalized.
~ John Hagel III
then more Losses, with the Substance seeming like the only consolation against the pain of the mounting Losses, and of course you're in Denial about it being the Substance that's causing the very Losses it's consoling you about -
~ David Foster Wallace
his cunning. That had been enough in the past, Palmer told himself, and it would be again. To his great relief, Morgan and the other man mounted up without searching the saddlebags on the dead horse. An ugly smile tugged at Palmer's mouth. Morgan was probably helping Stevens try to recover the money Soapy had stolen from him.
~ William W. Johnstone
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
~ Al Gore
Ruining you now would be like shooting a squirrel and mounting its head. Nobody would be impressed.
~ John Sandford
The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.
~ Michael T. Flynn
While the pathology of stroke and Alzheimer's are different, one key factor unites them: Mounting evidence suggests that a healthy diet may help prevent them both.
~ Michael Greger
and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.
~ Exodus 39:13