“The little things, it's an accumulation of the little things. We do the things to put ourselves in position to win, but then it's a turnover, or a missed rebound, or a missed free throw.”
Bob Lockart
“Foreign players have begun to accumulate short positions on the yen again in the belief that interest rates in Japan will not start rising in the foreseeable future.”
Yasuhisa Ishida
“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
Cyril Connolly
“Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”
Clarence Day
“[Over the years, Florian accumulated quite a collection of rare RAMONES items, including posters, tour t-shirts and photos.] [There are] things that I'm amazed that he has, ... I wish [late members] Johnny , Joey , and Dee Dee were alive to see this, because they would be very flattered like I am.”
Marky Ramone
“The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killings since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Philip Gourevitch
