Quotes About Amassing

I'm a collector of everything.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge.

So we spend, spend; amass, amass; indulge, indulge item by item, growing increasingly deaf to Jesus who described a simple life marked by generosity and underconsumption. Over time a new compartment develops for our spending habits, safely distanced from the other drawers like "discipleship" and "stewardship" (which has been helpfully reduced to tithing). And listen, I am first in line.

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.

The amassing of evil brings misery. The accumulation of good brings blessings.

A dangerous thrift it is to amass Only a treasury of regrets. He who holds them too close to his heart Suffers justly, and nothing forgets.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Mengele's greatest passion. He collected