I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects… — Alfred Russel Wallace 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
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm… — Abdu'l-Bahá 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
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr 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
“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
“Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
