James Lovelock Quotes

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

James Lovelock

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Find
  • Questions
  • Sit

• Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Culture
  • Model
  • Feminist

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• 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.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Family
  • American
  • Society

• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • First
  • Literary
  • Meant To Be

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Only
  • Easter

• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Living
  • Bored

• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • One Word

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• When you like something, you find time to do it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • You
  • Find

• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Nice

• You've made my life so glamorous,You can't blame me for feeling amorous.'S wonderful, 's marvellousThat you should care for me.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Feeling

• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

  

  Kahlil Gibran

• I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Money
  • Business
  • True

• I do look forward to doing things in the future that I haven't done before. Do you know what I have always dreamt about? Playing a serial killer!

  

  Jonathan Brandis
  • Done
  • Future

• If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.

  

  Cynthia Breazeal
  • Today

• Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

  

  Ann Hood
  • School
  • Home
  • Stop

• Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

  

  Dee Hock
  • Done

• I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

  

  James Lovelock