David Attenborough Quotes
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
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Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
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I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
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I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
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Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
