And the rational thing for a layman to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory.

Now, I'm a physicist, but I'm not the right kind of physicist. In regard to global warming, I'm just a layman.

It is not boastful to say that I have studied the Bible as much as any layman, and I have tried to live according to its precepts.

Now, I'm a physicist, but I'm not the right kind of physicist. In regard to global warming, I'm just a layman. And the rational thing for a layman to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory. And according to that theory, it's already too late to avoid a disaster.

74. Not even a layman would attempt to interpret article 1 of the Slavery Convention and articles 1 and 7 of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery the way the Special Rapporteur did.

They gave me a son as soft as a woman, and a daughter as hard as a man.

He's as gentle as a kitty. Gentle as a kitty?

I may never be as virtuosic as a violinist or as heroic as a cellist

A whale as white and as big as a mountain of snow.

I've always as a listener, as a fan,

I'm a failure as a husband and as a man.

As well as a cutie

As briefly as a flower

Not as great a general as Napoleon, not as great a statesman as Frederick the Great.

Decentralization is a tool as well as a process.

We can fight as a team, as a unit.

As a Colombian, as a citizen of the world,

And as a sister and later, as a scientist,

life as a chemical process, as a chemical phenomenon.

Disguised as a German soldier, disguised as a woman.

Ulysses had a hand as big as a barrel.

A dandelion lives as a dandelion, while a horseweed lives as a horseweed.

This principle could be articulated as a negative as well as a positive presumption.

He's as strong as a horse.

He's as timid as a rabbit.

It's as lovely as a rose.

You're as helpless as a baby.

As good a time as any.

He's as obedient as a child.

You're as nervous as a cat.

He's as tame as a kitten.

We're as organized as a monastery.

His heart is as firm as a stone yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

She's famous as a singer but not as a poet.

American optimism became as much a curse as a blessing.

This is a moral as well as a practical imperative.

And as a teacher of medicine, as a student myself,

There, he grew as a violinist and as a conductor.

He fought a Miura bull as big as a cathedral.

A shave's as good as a night's sleep. Chief. Hmm?

I feel as gentle as a child in a cradle.

Are saying this as a soldier or as a friend?

A pat from you hurts as much as a blow.

No, I'm here as a citizen, not as a lawyer.

We have truly sent thee as a witness , as a bringer of Glad Tidings , and as a Warner