Donella Meadows Quotes

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Donella Meadows

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Constitution
  • Empathy

• My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Always
  • Perspective
  • Old

• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Prosperity

• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• I like to space out my work.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Space
  • Like

• Sex is energy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Energy
  • Sex

• I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Family
  • Myself

• I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Changes

• I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Life
  • Never
  • Personal

• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Follow
  • Hot
  • Whatever

• I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Day

• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Night
  • Funny

• 3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Pride

• When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.

  

  Jason Wiles
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fake

• Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Advice
  • Ability
  • Argument

• I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Play
  • Secret
  • Subconscious

• The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

  

  James Stockdale
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Stock

• The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

  

  Donella Meadows