27 Continental Quotes for You to Enjoy

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. Al Gore

Eyes Rest Before Gone Our States Entire Percent Disappearing Polar Continental Been Years Very North Going Size Ice Cap Now United United States Million Million Years Last

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. Jared Diamond

Me History People Differences Seems Between Environments Namely Attributable Continental Continents Human Different Pattern Themselves Among Societies Biological

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics. Marquis de Lafayette

Politics Fear Depend Other Ought Our Unless Danger Indeed States Immediately Stroke Lies Strongly Taken Bound Continental Revised Articles Confederation America Wanting Measures Union European Each Last British

We must be practical. Talking about trade and other nice things are more soothing to the ear than security. But it won't be until we have sufficient security against internal, regional, and continental threats that we can be sure of real development. Ali Bongo Ondimba

Nice Other Security Must Threats About More Development Soothing Until Practical Talking Sure Trade Real Continental Than Against Regional Internal Nice Things Sufficient Things Ear

In the World Cup finals, you're unlikely to meet a continental rival. In Copa America, you know they are just around the corner and that you will have to beat them to win the competition. Diego Forlan

You World Competition Win Will Corner Meet Unlikely Finals Beat Rival Know Around Continental Cup America Just Them World Cup

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. Donald Pleasence

Approach Directors Tend Somewhat Continental Opposed American British

Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact - coming back to the land mass - Africa is so big that you could fit in the continental United States, China, and the entire Europe into Africa and still have space. Euvin Naidoo

You People Space Big Back States Entire Fact Could Mass Most Also Continent Still Continental Coming Fit Africa In Fact China Asia Land Europe United United States Million Million People Second

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts. Frank Gaffney

Enemy Live Our Some Insights Invaluable Data Area Attack Could Well Shelf Access Continental Were Provide American Used Who Strategically Near Routes Millions

The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For Germany, the economy is an instrument in a much wider issue of stability in continental Europe and overcoming the mistakes of the past. Frans Timmermans

Vision Car Mistakes Past Clear Clear Vision Economy Beyond Overcoming Instrument Industry Continent Continental Issue German Selling Germany Goes Stability Much Europe Wider Necessity

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. Gouverneur Morris

Character Man People Speak Will Reputation Distinguished Some Never He Fail Continental Prefer Might Elect Should Services

Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that. Harold Hamm

Good Feel Good Half Our Projects Out About Could Taken Put Advantage Feel Over Sponsored Continental Coming Lot Historic Pipe Pipeline Oil Where Certainly

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates

Army Revolution Ancestors Out Sons Continental American Turns American Revolution Fought

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits. John Barrasso

Alone Power Energy Enough Hundred Hundred Years Say Outer More Democrats Shelf Limits Continental West Years Off Rocky Mountain America American Oil Next Barrels Billions Even Alaska

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. Joseph Hume

Corn Market Our Proof Price Tends Abundant Opening Always Foreign Continental Sink English Raise Ports British

Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic. Linda Colley

War World Safety Seriously Argument First Own Our Once Easier Introduced Unpatriotic Threatening Empire Became First World First World War Continental Anti-War Denounce Began Any Shores Confined Irresponsible Being Much Inherently Agitation Europe Wars Conscription Britain World War

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship. M. Stanton Evans

For the last decade, I've worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, serving about 20 percent of the continental United States and about 18 million people. The men and women I've worked with at every level in our circuit are an inspiration to me. Neil Gorsuch

Me Women People Judge Men Men And Women Every Our Circuit States About Percent Inspiration Federal Federal Judge Court Continental Western Decade Six Spans Worked United United States Level Million Million People Serving Last Last Decade

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. Robert Ballard

Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian. Rod Laver

Funny Game Giving Hell Funny Thing About Crowds Volatile Support Over Merry Biased French Cheering Frenchman Always Foreign Opponent Continental His Australian American While Prefer Englishman Thing Player

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights. Roger Milla

Heights Other Promote More Join Football New Globally Continental Than Hands African FIFA Then Bodies Raise

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things. Seth Shostak

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet. Thomas Mallon

Old Half Contentment Few Severed Visitor Inside Small Troubled Outside Mosaic New Feet Like Continental Square Stones Just Form Republic Paving Inches Apparent Euro Union European Czech European Union Czech Republic Zone Set

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. William Whipple

Experience Enemies Think Our Furnishing States Distressing More Toward Force Trade Continental Ships Than Same Done Shown

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