Donella Meadows Quotes

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

Donella Meadows

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• That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Free
  • Moments

• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Very
  • Directions

• I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • World
  • Business
  • Fashion

• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Story
  • Research
  • Task

• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Society
  • Anniversary

• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Serious

• Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Road
  • Successful

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Water
  • Enough
  • Quit

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Choice
  • Now
  • Admit

• Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Understanding
  • Understood

• We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Know
  • Perfect
  • Emotions

• As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Up
  • School
  • Help

• During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Men
  • Competition

• Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Good
  • Money
  • American

• It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh’s stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Painting

• If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow

• Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Room
  • Equipment
  • Surrounded

• I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

  

  Donella Meadows