#led

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#dinosaurs #killed #like #million #overdue

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brooklyn #hot #i #i was raised #raised

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #even #global #global warming #know

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#component #desert #men #men and women #operation

We've been called, and He has blessed. ↗

— Willie Aames

#blessed #called

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#era #every #evident #extinguished #fire

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#actor #because #express #expression #idea

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. ↗

— Peter Agre

#career #cold #diseases #exotic #far

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#dead #happy #only #peace #smiled