Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.
Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.
We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.
If you really want to see something scary, turn on the nightly news. To me, for people to say 'look at the films' is ludicrous. The world we live in needs to change.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
Right about when I turned 13, I realized that women could be jockeys, from my travels to the racetrack with my dad.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
