Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Promise
  • Optimistic
  • Birth

• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Political
  • Middle

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Choose
  • Married

• We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Take

• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Beautiful
  • Growth
  • Building

• The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Job
  • Day
  • Universe

• My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • Anxiety
  • I Can

• I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Envy

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Children

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.

  

  Randall Park
  • People
  • Same
  • Follow

• I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Good
  • Interesting

• People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

  

  John Oliver
  • People
  • Character

• It is the slow, but steady movement of the lower classes along the scale of the class system. But it has been very very slow. It took 2000 years. But it is something which is going on, and something which is almost spectacular in certain sectors today -assertion of the backward classes, of scheduled castes, of women.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Movement
  • System
  • Scale

• Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas