Explosives Quotes - Page 5

• For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Prayer, Views

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• No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

  Nikola Tesla

  Zero, Future, Moon

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• I like the sprints so much because it's very explosive, very aggressive, and quite physical sometimes as well. On top of that you've got the speed, so it's a big adrenaline rush coming into the sprints all the time. I love that bit!

  Magnus Backstedt

  Sometimes, Speed, Bigs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment.

  William Katt

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• 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

  Yoga, Realization, Failing

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• There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

  Thomas Huxley

  Power, Gunpowder, Genius

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Taken, Writing

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• On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise.

  Claude Chabrol

  Character, Together, Sophie

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Determination, Commitment

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• 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

  Real, Mind, Wanted

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• The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

  Eric Hoffer

  Feelings, Opiates, Poison

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Anvils, Entertainment

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• Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Real, Done, Good Things

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

  George Hamilton

  Hands, People, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

  Colin Firth

  Jobs, Thinking, Impact

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.

  Sandra Oh

  Crazy, House, Should

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• The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

  David Lloyd George

  Blow, Men, Fabric

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• 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

  Strong, Balls, Legs

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• I've just been training and working on my speed. I want to be faster, Everyone knows that the more speed you have the more of a threat you can be in the NFL. For me I have been working on my speed and being more explosive. Everyone knows I can get the 10- or 15-yard runs, but I want to have the 60- and 70-yard runs.

  Giovani Bernard

  Running, Nfl, Training

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Team, Games, Mouths

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• Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones. And so the muscles will have endurance and stability. And flexibility, which helps you throw the ball harder or have the snap to hit a ball. Or to take off quickly to steal a base.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Baseball, Player, Training

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.

  Troy Polamalu

  Exercise, Stronger, Balance

  Source: www.complex.com

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