#plains

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#change #criticism #explains #interest #japan

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#consciousness #distribution #explains #few #first

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#countless #countless millions #dawn #died #down

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#biologists #darwinian #darwinian theory #evolutionary #explains

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bring #empires #eras #match #me

No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ↗

— Ira Hayes

#being #complains #ever #short #speech

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball #complains #dropped #likely #man

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#big #brush #building #choose #construction

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#development #freedom #grass #grow #growing