So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs],… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve… — Todd Agnew Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What… — Gordon Wright Copy Share Image
“Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
