#sand

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#dangerous #foolish #head #know #limit

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#cities #come #host #i #islam

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. ↗

— Richard Burton

#burn #child #each #furious #her

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ↗

— Lord Byron

#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York. ↗

— James Caan

#believe #certain #certain way #develop #grow

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. ↗

— William Feather

#certainly #difficult #here #inspiration #intelligent

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#cargo #carriages #cheaper #containers #current

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#book #came #december #decline #first

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#best #canadian #enormous #families #governments