#once

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#apples #arrogance #been #beings #benefit

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#coral #cutting #down #earth #forest

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#body #evil #food #forbidden #more

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. ↗

— Joe Biden

#back #banks #big #budget #chains

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#artist #concept #distasteful #found #i

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. ↗

— Xun Zi

#get #nowhere #once #person #roads

Much that is terrible we do not know. Much that is beautiful we shall still discover. Let's sail till we come to the edge. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#beauty

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. ↗

— Josh Billings

#child #go #once #should #travel

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. ↗

— Larry Bird

#best #labeled #loafing #once #stay

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australian #billion #clean #coming #concern