England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution… — John Piper Copy Share Image
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures,… — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages it was a lot more fun to blame things like crop failure or redheads on witches, then set… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've… — Scott Eastwood Copy Share Image
My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline.… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Nat and I are entrepreneurs. It’s been feast of famine over the years. One of the greatest blessings in our lives is… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
“But what factor, or combination of factors, may have caused the famine(s) in the Eastern Mediterranean during these decades remains uncertain. Elements… — Eric H. Cline Copy Share Image
Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
“In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their… — Tom Devine Copy Share Image
For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world,… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes talking about painful things helps, Essie,” Dwayne said gently. “I’ll go first. About two hundred and fifty years ago during a… — Robyn Peterman Copy Share Image
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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