Donella Meadows Quotes
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
-
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
-
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
-
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
-
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
-
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
-
Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
-
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
-
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
-
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
-
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
-
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
-
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
-
We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.
-
Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules. In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there's going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge.
-
I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
-
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
-
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
