#sand

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. ↗

— Rex Stout

#effort #shrewd #stokes #thousand #touches

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #american #between #families #family

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#blacks #elderly #employing #exercise #family

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#before #here #inherent #itself #long

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. ↗

— David Suzuki

#earth #earthquakes #gas #high #into

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

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#plus #skill #ten #thousand #times

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? ↗

— John Millington Synge

#horses #only #price #son #thousand

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#lasts #life #sand #scratches