Mines Quotes

164 quotes by 128 authors

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages… — Henry Ford
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines… — Ludwig von Mises
No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner… — Milan Kundera
The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community. — Norman Jewison
Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines. — Michael O'Donoghue
If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines. — Steven T. Byington
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no… — T.H. White
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab… — Terry Pratchett
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable… — William Cowper
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the… — Karel Capek
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the… — Ali MacGraw
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway. — Burt Reynolds
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.… — Jimmy Carter
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than… — Jules Verne
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the… — John Maynard Keynes

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