Hal Borland Quotes
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.Hal Borland
Quotes to Explore
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
Kalpana Chawla -
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel -
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
Yair Lapid -
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler -
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
Karlie Kloss -
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
Joanne Rowling -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
Bill Frist
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
Doreen Cronin -
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
David Perlmutter -
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
Philip Yancey -
Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true.
Patrick Ness -
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
Hal Borland