#earth

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #moral #moral evil #physical #upon

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#house #mansions #many #words

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#along #better #certainly #directives #earth

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth? ↗

— Anna Freud

#earth #joy #only #promised #were

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#both #brother #called #children #did

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#judges #kings #may #men #wise

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #brazil #capacity #china #earth

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything