Maurice Strong Quotes

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Government
  • Child
  • Chinese

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Great
  • Living
  • Possible

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Small

• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Value
  • Rich
  • Surprised

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • New

• If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Time
  • Improve
  • Deserves

• Sometimes, there are monsters inside of us all, even in the ones we think are the most good." ~Zara White

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Good
  • Think
  • Inside

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Water

• I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Future
  • Earth