#dam

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. ↗

— Du Fu

#crystal #damp #heart #rains #spring

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#annihilation #appears #because #bombing #damage

Blake is damned good to steal from. ↗

— Henry Fuseli

#damned #good #steal

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#archetypal #damages #evils #important #longer

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. ↗

— George Galloway

#both #bush #countries #damned #hated

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#her #hit #i #i think #madam

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. ↗

— Bill Gates

#death #each #eu #even #fad

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#damage #encounter #may #mechanical #other

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#characters #fiction #imagination #madame-bovary #reading

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#dam #environmental #instance #larger #mine