“Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other's energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.” PeopleEarthEnergyPartyWeekSevenLunchSeven Days Author:Frederick Lenz
“A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.” EarthPleasurePartyParticularDisappointmentShowersSpoilTrunks Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth.” MenBelieveShowsEarthChristChurchPartyOpinionZealCarrying OnZealous Author:Horatius Bonar
“So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!” IfsWayWould BeEarthLastsPartyGenerationsSacrificeAgreePopulationExtinctionPopulation Control Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.” PeopleIfsGivingEarthPainLiteratureResultsPartySecretMagicDestructionCourtLiberationMarvelousWrathReproachLumpsFamily FriendsDisapproval Author:Michael Chabon
“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.” IfsLittlesTwoProblemEarthBitsPartyRaceArmsLittle BitAmerican PoliticsArms Race Author:Hugh Sidey
“Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.” KindRealityEarthPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyCommonGenerationsPolicyExamplePoliticianEthicsEvidenceStrategyIdeologyZonePolitical PartiesCivilityCommon GroundPartisanshipScorched Earth Author:Hillary Clinton
“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?” YearsRealityEarthScienceThreePoliticsNaturePartyHistoryFourGenerationsTheoryProveClimateBillionsIdeologyTeaFree SpeechHurricanesTea Party Author:Rand Paul
“there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.” IfsSometimesMatterFactsEarthLeftPartyDoubtCreaturesMurderWideNo DoubtLengthMeaninglessBoresShut UpMatter Of FactImpulsiveBabbling Author:J. E. Buckrose