Accretion Quotes

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.