We may be more vulnerable to sea level rise than we thought and it may be more rapid than we have anticipated. This is an issue we should take very seriously. Peter Clark More Peter Clark Quotes 2
The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an Iraq-like preventive military strike, with even more alarming regional and global consequences. Gareth Evans More Gareth Evans Quotes 1
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty American Businessman More J. Paul Getty Quotes 1
The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced. Toshihiko Fukui Japanese Public Servant More Toshihiko Fukui Quotes 0
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America. Lee Haney American Athlete More Lee Haney Quotes 0
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. James Hansen American Scientist More James Hansen Quotes 0
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. Keith Henson American Scientist More Keith Henson Quotes 0
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. Ernest Lawrence American Scientist More Ernest Lawrence Quotes 0
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. Ernst Mayr German Scientist More Ernst Mayr Quotes 0
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. John Boyd Orr Scottish Politician More John Boyd Orr Quotes 0
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war. Kelly Miller American Sociologist More Kelly Miller Quotes 0
If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. James Monroe American President More James Monroe Quotes 0
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. John Moody American Businessman More John Moody Quotes 0
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity. Henri Pirenne Belgian Historian More Henri Pirenne Quotes 0
The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction. Lord Robertson Scottish Diplomat More Lord Robertson Quotes 0
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. Voltaire French Writer More Voltaire Quotes 0
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. Simon Travaglia Author More Simon Travaglia Quotes 0
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Mercy Otis Warren American Playwright More Mercy Otis Warren Quotes 0
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington American President More George Washington Quotes 0
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us. Matthew Simpson American Clergyman More Matthew Simpson Quotes 0
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. Boris Spassky Russian Celebrity More Boris Spassky Quotes 0
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. Leland Stanford American Educator More Leland Stanford Quotes 0
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. Henry Morton Stanley Welsh Explorer More Henry Morton Stanley Quotes 0
Now that the world economy is on firmer footing, investors have grown skeptical that rapid growth can coexist with tame inflation. Adam Blankman More Adam Blankman Quotes 0
Normally, rigid plastics are synthesized by rapid reactions that randomly cross-link polymers. Adrien Cote More Adrien Cote Quotes 0