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

• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • American
  • America
  • Differences

• 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

• We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

  

  William Ruckelshaus
  • Fashion
  • Policy
  • Atmosphere

• 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

• To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Son
  • Virtue
  • Conqueror

• I would classify myself as, being an interpreter, basically, of what other people have written. I find something that I feel comfortable in – that I can put myself into – and that’s what I do, play it. I express myself through the music that someone else wrote. With the availability of so much good music, there’s no reason to play mediocre music just because you wrote it yourself, which some people do.

  

  Art Farmer
  • Music
  • Express
  • Interpreter

• From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Colours
  • Suns

• I have very vivid memories of my mom and dad making up batches of fake blood at night.

  

  Steve Spangler
  • Night
  • Mom
  • Memories

• 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