#alas

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development. ↗

— Frank Murkowski

#development #gas #great #new #oil

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

#allow #away #been #considerable #going

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#always #another #beyond #blocks #disappointments

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial. ↗

— Ronald Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. ↗

— Ronald Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

I can't live without eyeliner. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

Sometimes you loose a battle. but mischief always wins the war. ↗

— John Green

#funny #john-green #looking-for-alaska #romance #funny

Alaska itself is an unusual state. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#itself #state #unusual

You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother. I can already feel my balls starting to recede. And hey, does it look like I’m growing breasts? - Kye ↗

— Krista Alasti

#fantasy #funny #krista-alasti #shifters #taming-shadows

...Alas, Babylon was to be among the first to give a public voice to the fears and anxieties associated with a nuclear attack and with threats of atomic radiation. And unlike others in the genre, he offered unmitigated hope. Randy Bragg and company not only survive the devastation that leaves vast Contaminated Zones throughout the United States, but they also apply the best in themselves to begin the re-establishment of life within a civil society. All of the atomic fears of the 1950s (and later) are there, but Frank's 'message' seems to be that we can survive even the worst catastrophe with everyday, secularized applications of faith, hope, and charity. ↗

— Hal Hager

#commentary-in-alas #faith