Contaminating Matter Quotes & Sayings

Since 2000, motor vehicle deaths only really changed between 2007 and 2009, when deaths fell by more than 20 percent. Why the sudden drop? It wasn't because of any safety regulations suddenly going into effect in late 2007. The explanation is much more prosaic: during the recession and anemic recovery, people drove a lot less. There is a more basic problem with comparing motor vehicle deaths to firearm deaths. The causes of death are very different (Figure 4). In 2014, 99.4 percent of car deaths were accidental in nature. By contrast, only 1.8 percent of gun deaths were accidental. A staggering 65 percent of gun fatalities are suicides. Although murders and accidental gun death rates have fallen, the firearm suicide rate has risen by 14 percent since 2000 (Figure 5). But the non-firearm suicide rate rose by 49 percent during the same period. The motor vehicle suicide rate went up 53 percent.15 Something is causing a general rise in suicide. — John R. Lott Jr.

A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head. — Kate Atkinson

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession. — Adam Lamberg

One Man's food is another Man's Poison — Lucretius

What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you. — Al Duncan

You will practice more self-awareness. People who meditate regularly, overtime they develop a greater awareness of themselves, their actions and emotions. — Amy Young

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day. — Francis Atterbury

She considers pit traps and high explosives the appropriate solution to almost every problem. — Seanan McGuire

All's well that ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. — Francois Mauriac

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work hard, and if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, that, the world gets a little better each time. That's what this presidency is trying to be about. And I see that in the young people i work with. This is not just drama-obama. This is what I really believe. — Barack Obama

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

All the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue. — Isabel Burton