Privacy and pollution are similar problems. Both cause harm that is invisible and pervasive. Both result from exploitation of a resource--whether it is land, water, or information. Both suffer from difficult attribution. It is not easy to identify a ...
FAITH IS THE EMPEROR OF DREAMS A great emperor is born from one tiny sperm. A large eagle grows from one small egg. A giant tree grows from one tiny seedling. For the newborn and wise, Everything begins small. However, it is faith that builds the sta...
A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good morning!' And the t...
[Pvt. Joker is doing pull-ups. Hartman counts them off] Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: One for the Commandant! One for the Corps! Come on Joker, pull! Pull! [Pvt. Joker can't complete another pull-up] Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I guess the Corps don't get ...
[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that every kind of atom can form a definite small number of such links: that these can be single, double or triple...
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.
Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
You save me every single day. You are the one thing that makes me happy. You are the only thing I need.
The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.
I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
