#deaths

There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#been #could #deaths #devastation #disaster

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation. ↗

— Joe Murray

#dangerous #deaths #difficult #donor #donors

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#deaths #fully #hear #hearts #imagined

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#awful #bright #bright future #death #deaths

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. ↗

— Mike Gravel

#died #dying #entire #know #more

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#also #better #cancer #deaths #decreased

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear