John Muir Quotes
Concerning the founding of the Sierra Club: Hoping that we will be able to do something for wildness and make the mountains glad.
Quotes to Explore
-
In Australia, kids play in American accents.
-
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
-
I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.
-
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
-
I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
-
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
-
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
-
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
-
High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
-
I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
-
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
-
Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.
-
Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.
-
Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
-
I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again-but always trying and always gaining.
-
What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
-
When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
-
And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.
-
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.
-
The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.
-
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
-
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
-
Again Sam’s genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And this transformation to rock was fuelled by desire, the most ephemeral thing on Earth.
-
Concerning the founding of the Sierra Club: Hoping that we will be able to do something for wildness and make the mountains glad.
