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When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake. -- Harry S. Truman
The digital explosion has been so explosive. -- Tina Brown
Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career. -- Mark McKinnon
I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive. -- Tommy Thompson
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. -- Yasser Arafat
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. -- Mike Huckabee
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. -- Robert Smithson
Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive. -- Steven Weber
Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats. -- Evgeny Morozov
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. -- Bob Taft
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. -- Primo Levi
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. -- Eugene Field
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. -- David Suzuki
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -- Billy Joel
To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game. -- Tony Dungy
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war. -- Ban Ki-moon
What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination. -- Bela Karolyi
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive. -- Jeremy Lin
The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini. -- Tom Waits
For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte. -- Donnie Yen
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence. -- Dalai Lama
Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity. -- Andrew Marr
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. -- Catherine Bell
Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride! -- Antony Starr
The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggressiveness, his explosive power, you have to be a great athlete to have all these, his body, his look, you know, all these things have to do with discipline and structure. He was able to go against the biggest guy, regardless of who he was. -- Evander Holyfield
There is explosive power in virtue. -- Corrie Ten Boom
I'm very emotional, very explosive, very temperamental. -- James Fox
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick. -- Margo Jefferson
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. -- Thomas Huxley
The best personal defense is an explosive counterattack. -- Jeff Cooper
I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue. -- Emma Bonino
'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence. -- Sharon Stone
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff. -- May Sarton
Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive. -- Bruce Campbell
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you. -- Neal Shusterman
You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way. -- Joel Osteen
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. -- Billy Joel
Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive. -- Joe Gayton
We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths. -- Jayme K.
Victor Oladipo is like a babyâ??s bottom â?? smooth and sometimes explosive. -- Clark Kellogg
You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there. -- Sandra Oh
Injustice coupled with racism is a highly explosive mixture, in which the world, threatens to suffocate. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released. -- Orhan Pamuk
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We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive. -- Charles A. Reich
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth. -- Corey Clark
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. -- David Ben-Gurion
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive. -- Harry Browne
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. -- Margaret Atwood
Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday. -- Rajeev Shukla
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. -- Jeph Jacques
This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy. -- Jaggi Vasudev
In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. -- Bob Taft
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. -- Bela Bartok
My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky. -- Kris Humphries
If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth. -- David Zaslav
We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year. -- Kevin B. Rollins
Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer. -- Steven Soderbergh
I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes. -- Jeffrey Lewis
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul. -- Bobby Jones
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. -- Criss Jami
Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court. -- Herbert Hoover
I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive. -- David W. Earle
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely. -- Seth Green
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales. -- Chad Hurley
The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.Suffice it to say, I froze. -- Cleo Coyle
The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.Suffice it to say, I froze." -- Cleo Coyle
When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it. -- Emile Zola
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. -- Christopher Morley
This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive. -- Michael Irvin
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff." "Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool. -- James Patterson
I have a strong hips and groin. It's the leg speed, the way I approach the ball. My first step is not very hard, but my second is explosive. -- Sebastian Janikowski
Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods -- Ban Ki-moon
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you. -- Og Mandino
We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best. -- Joseph P. Farrell
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun. -- Victoria Abril
Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training. -- Richelle Mead
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity. -- Paul Farmer
Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower. -- Yann Martel
I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes. -- Giorgio Armani
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown. -- Asger Jorn
I don't always match up with guys like Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum, but when I do, those guys are a challenge. Dwight, for example, is quick, explosive, and strong all in one. -- Kris Humphries
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. -- Pauline Kael
The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh. -- Alex Pareene
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes. -- Thomas Huxley

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