"Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real."

-- Charles M. Vest

#Country Quotes #Real Quotes #Stress Quotes

“Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.”
“But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise. I think that's what I would like most of all.”
“The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.”
“Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that it will expire after a few billion more. . . . If we are wise, we will have furnished our new apartments long before that time.”
“It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora”
“People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex,”

Source : "Legendary Portrayal" by David Walstad. The Philadelphia Inquirer TV Week, May 21, 1995.
“Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.”

Source : Song: 3 Card Molly
“We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”

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