A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.
The first billion is a helluva lot harder.
We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.
What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.
Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.
The millions or billions of micro decisions that you're going to make, that's what will determine who you are as a writer, not you deciding in advance.
I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a few thousand years old, and that human technological society is mere centuries old, the nature of a community with millions or even billions of years of technological and social progress cannot even be imagined. . . . What would we make of a billion-year-old technological community?
I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.
People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.
If I had a billion dollars I would. . . oh wait. . . already do.
I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.
It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.