Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions… — Marc Levine Copy Share Image
Why dictator Musharraf, raising the slogan of 'Pakistan First,' did not think about construction of Dasu and Basha dams? — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Let's say I take a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of the casino in Las Vegas. That type of pattern… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water,… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown Copy Share Image
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras,… — Renee Montagne Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles… — Jamais Cascio 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
