#idly

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#foreign #foreign oil #fuel-efficient #global #global warming

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#been #behind #both #felt #grateful

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#alternative #appetite #big #carbohydrates #consider

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#continuous #fiction #form #i #newspapers

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ideas #move #rapidly #their #time

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#compromise #drop #greed #houses #idly

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#because #far #goes #i #know

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #country #entire #even #everyone

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#comprised #entirely #jail #rapidly #shopping