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suicidal science long
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. Carl Sagan
suicidal men ahab
Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality. Edward Said
suicidal nightmare ends
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. Arthur Koestler
suicidal should-have rivers
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. Edward Abbey
suicidal order years
I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people. Adolf Hitler
suicidal years answers
I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this. Courtney Love
suicidal people waiting
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured--especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised. E. O. Wilson
suicidal may want
May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die. Damien Rice
suicidal thinking doors
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment. Douglas Coupland
longer matter relief weeks
Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that. Phil Zepeda
longer message misery payoff remain suffering terms
Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.
longer people seem shocked
People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry, David Friedman
longer looking planets prior stars start terms
Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.
longer mean monitor
Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.
long periods long-periods-of-time
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. Beck
long chance i-loved-you
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get. Becca Fitzpatrick
long political quality
'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?' Barry Ritholtz
long people trying
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. Barry Lopez
thieves crime rascals
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. Aristotle
thieves alive singers
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. Ben Kingsley
thieves jugglers
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! William Shakespeare
thieves pleasure
Pleasure is a thief to business. Daniel Defoe
thieves ends take-time
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. Clive Barker
thieves littles saws
Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief. Diogenes
thieves littles crime
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
thieves stealing mere
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. Ann-Marie MacDonald
thieves heist-society
Time, the greatest thief of all. Ally Carter