Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
