Jen Sincero

If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.

American Author

Neil Warnock

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

English Businessman

Max Beesley

I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

English Actor

John Sweeney

I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

American Politician

Eddie Campbell

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

Scottish Artist

Nostradamus

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

French Celebrity

Gisele Bundchen

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

Brazilian Model

Charles Forsman

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.

Swedish Manager

Jason Pierre-Paul

I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.

American Athlete

Sack often refers to a simple, not fancy, durable type of bag.

Material indicator

'Sack' implies a larger bag, typically one that can hold bulk items.

Size implications

Using 'sack' to mean firing someone is casual and can seem insensitive.

Informal usage

When someone is sacked, it often implies a sudden, immediate dismissal.

Abruptness

In sports, 'sack' is specific to American football and relates to defense.

Sporting context

'Sack' as a noun feels very informal when discussing job termination.

Employment context

'To sack' in history often means violent, destructive looting.

Historical violence

 And so they vibrate that and send it out. Small-toothed whales also have air sacks; they're all over their heads, so it's like they're airheads. They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly,

How whales breathe,...

 Your ear has another important function besides hearing. In its innermost part lies a group of structures known as the vestibular system, which gives us our sense of balance and movement. Inside there are three semicircular tubules that can sense rotation, one for each dimension of space. And there are also two hair-lined sacks filled with fluid.

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 It can sense its local environment and actually find resources in the environment to sustain itself. Now, this doesn't have a brain, it doesn't have a neural system. This is just a sack of chemicals that is able to have this interesting and complex lifelike behavior. If we count the number of chemicals

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 darting between tentacles without ever touching them. Nudibranchs, which are sea slugs covered in protective slime, can actually steal the jelly's defenses by eating the cnidocytes and transferring them to specialized sacks for later use, as weapons against their own predators.

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 Soon, aspirin became synonymous with acetylsalicylic acid. As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart,

How aspirin was...

 their trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not traveling empty-handed each ant carries a lava or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack of potatoes

5 Reasons Ants Are...

 him with no he handed me a sack with the sack bail life so I reached in hoping for thousands and instead God might not believe money and tissue I was like what is this some kind of joke then a guy sprang up from the backseat and choked

Should “blackness”...

 their Trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not travelling empty-handed each ant carries a larva or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack

Ant Nest Made Entirely...

 The last image we don't have. The entire pile was a green berm of life. These are gateway species, vanguard species that open the door for other biological communities. So I invented burlap sacks, bunker spawn --

6 ways mushrooms can...

 Sharks may lay eggs, or bear live young. Egg laying sharks only lay a few large eggs. They may come in various forms, such as sacks called mermaid purses or corkscrews.

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