#sands

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#being #captured #felt #know #like

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#exemplified #going #success #take #thinking

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#floor #ocean #oyster #peaceful #rocked

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ↗

— Buddha

#being #candle #candles #decreases #happiness

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. ↗

— Judy Garland

#few #i #just #love #man

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#century #delaware #end #estuary #had

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#being #being prepared #critical #does #done

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#drawings #illustration #make #perfected #thousands

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #devil #door #get #just