#explosive

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. ↗

— Primo Levi

#anyone #experiences #explosive #gossip #nature

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #mercenaries #military #ordnance #rules-to-live-by

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#arab #arab world #blows #cement #explosive

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #been #debates #difference #explosive

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ↗

— Eugene Field

#came #explosive #extreme #human #human thought

The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#about #against #aggressiveness #athlete #biggest

The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud. ↗

— Gary Locke

#citizens #class #country #done #economic

Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#congress #explosives #fund #however #implement

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#culture #dealt #explosives #general #guide

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. ↗

— Tom Waits

#atomic bomb #bikini #bomb #explosive #first