#moratorium

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd. ↗

— Mark E. Hyman

#affect #based #because #candidate #comes

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#any #being #exacerbate #i #i think

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#goal #goals #moratorium #place

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#been #country #cut #cutting #down