#terrific

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. ↗

— Stephen King

#better #cost #evil #good #goodness

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! ↗

— Larry Niven

#been #bruce #doing #how #i

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#become #come #dark #door #go

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #i love #john #love #marriage

Culture clash is terrific drama. ↗

— Ken Follett

#culture #drama #terrific

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#big #bless #built #comes #contract

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#foreigner #like #music #nothing #our

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#brain #cannot #cave #clever #comprehend