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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. -- George Wald
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. -- Lucretius
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. -- Joshua Lederberg
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you. -- George Whitefield
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. -- James S. Coleman
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. -- Bill Cartwright
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. -- Sarah Chalke
Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet. -- Frank Zappa
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools. -- Adam Fletcher
Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings... -- William Butler Yeats
Dropping the news to my parents that I was skipping my 'dream education' at Chalmers to sit at home recording videos while playing video games was not easy. -- PewDiePie
Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style. -- Adam Kluger
'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style. -- Adam Kluger
Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next. -- Nalini Singh
I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images. -- Judy Fiskin
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. -- Plutarch
I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it. -- Snoop Dogg
Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty. -- Simon Sinek
I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner. -- David Carradine
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket. -- George McGovern
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start. -- John Lee Hooker
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. -- Matt Smith
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. -- Don Marquis
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping. -- Dana Delany
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self. -- Barbara Walters
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. -- Kenneth H. Cooper
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? -- Gunter Grass
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent. -- Bill Dedman
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game. -- Jaron Lanier
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. -- Joko Beck
One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. -- John Zorn
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. -- Jeffrey Bernard
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists. -- Muhammad Ali
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things. -- Alan Arkin
The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today. -- Bobby Orr
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is. -- Rajneesh
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. -- Bobby McFerrin
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these. -- Joe Klein
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. -- Bharati Mukherjee
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off. -- Gilbert Hernandez
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you. -- Jack Canfield
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. -- Lindsey Buckingham
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it. -- Vinod Khosla
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit. -- Bobby Knight
Lips, like roses dropping myrrh. -- George Sandys
Constant dropping wears away stones -- Benjamin Franklin
Continual dropping wears away a stone. -- Lucretius
You can complete a project by dropping it. -- Arianna Huffington
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? -- Susanna Kaysen
Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage. -- Tim Fargo
I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation. -- Greg Proops
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. -- Ovid
Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo. -- Daniel Roth
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. -- Terence McKenna
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. -- Agnes de Mille
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping. -- Daphne du Maurier
Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world. -- Tom Hanks
For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title. -- Gabriel Iglesias
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell. -- Henry Ward Beecher
My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat. -- Joan Rivers
Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. -- John Milton
Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello. -- Robert Breault
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie. -- Stacey Snider
He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. -- P. G. Wodehouse
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. -- Aeschylus
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world. -- Alexander Smith
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up. -- Louis Armstrong
Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat. -- Khushwant Singh
I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping. -- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb -- Matthieu Ricard
I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping. -- Shaggy
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. -- Charles Spurgeon
When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. -- Ice Cube
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. -- John Major
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. -- Rumi
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. -- Lauren DeStefano
I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it. -- Damir Dokic
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. -- Lil Wayne
Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins. -- Rachel Caine
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping. -- Dr. Seuss
Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white. -- Mindy Kaling
I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion. -- Sophie Jordan
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. -- Robert Reich
I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square. -- Anne Rice
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate. -- Robert D. Putnam
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. -- Allan Kozinn
When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper. -- John de Ruiter
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? -- Susanna Kaysen
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand. -- Bill Cosby
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping. -- Alberto Manguel
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. -- Laurence Sterne
If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in. -- Herbert Benson
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything. -- Vernon Howard
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. -- Virgil Thomson
If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope. -- Andy Roddick
There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past. -- Don DeLillo
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution. -- Peter Drucker
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships. -- Natasha Lyonne
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. -- Carlos Santana
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills. -- Gillian Armstrong
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. -- Ronald Steel
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us. -- Billy Graham
Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise. -- Guy Finley
According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves. -- Jimmy Fallon
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse. -- Zephyr Teachout
The slower frequencies are dropping away to be replaced by the faster, higher, more refined frequencies that are part of the Energetic Evolution. -- Elaine Seiler
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I brought Hassanâ??s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty -- Khaled Hosseini
I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating. -- Grace Slick
Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds. -- Dennis Miller

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