Dennis Overbye Quotes

Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.

Dennis Overbye

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Roads

• The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?

  

  Bennett Cerf
  • Age
  • Stay
  • Atomic

• The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Ignore

• Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Today
  • Perfect
  • Miracle

• The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • High
  • Energy

• The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Long
  • High
  • Innovation

• We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.

  

  E. W. Kenyon
  • Best
  • Reach
  • Atmosphere

• Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Confidence
  • Sun
  • Wonders

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Promise
  • Forgiveness

• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

  

  Plato
  • Progress
  • Slow
  • Discourage

• I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Travel
  • Moon
  • Atmosphere

• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Light
  • Changes
  • Atmosphere

• One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Silence
  • Result
  • Atmosphere

• It doesn't matter as long as you're there to enjoy the atmosphere. How else am I an entertainer?

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Long
  • Enjoy
  • Atmosphere

• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Fate
  • Regret
  • Wonders

• We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Atmosphere
  • Mysteries
  • Surrounded

• For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Pain
  • Author
  • Circumstances

• More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Action
  • Name
  • Sunshine

• Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity – the fire of love of God and neighbor – it will work wonders.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • God
  • Love
  • Person

• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Protect
  • Jewelry

• Everybody's moving around a little slow. We've got to come out with a better attitude. It's hard to come back every game. We've got to come out with a sense of urgency right off the get-go.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Game
  • Attitude
  • Urgency

• You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Friend

• Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.

  

  Dennis Overbye
  • Atmosphere
  • Wonders
  • Makers