#los

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #did #had #having #hoped

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#loses #minority #popular #popular vote #put

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#good #paradise #philosophy #love

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #appears #bad #boss #called

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#amazing thing #anything #back #could #did

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. ↗

— David Suzuki

#change #changes #environmental #evolutionary #explosive

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy. ↗

— David Suzuki

#becoming #continued #conventional #depleted #difficult

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#often #opportunity

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#atheists #bankrupt #believe #could #ever