#spread

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#also #commitment #courage #danger #day

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#boulder #bush #deep #dig #gentle

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe. ↗

— Jil Sander

#around #design #globe #hope #i

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#hope #instant #reaction #results #spread

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#does #fertilizer #good #heap #little

Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country. ↗

— John Spratt

#country #dumps #end #guard #hostilities

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese