Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges… — Felix Marti-Ibanez Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“At first there was no highway code for the canals and rules were soon needed to control the boats especially on the… — Stan Yorke Copy Share Image
There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
I remember exiting the birth canal and suddenly I was in a film. But you are never really in charge of that.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
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