Satish Kumar Quotes

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Satish Kumar

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• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Defending peace is the duty of all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Peace
  • Duty
  • Defending

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Courtesy
  • Added

• Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Growing
  • Water
  • Sun

• I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Music
  • Friends
  • English

• You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Man
  • Effort

• That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Trump
  • Idiot

• Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Character
  • Society

• The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • People
  • Real

• I love Wingfoot; I'm a member of Wingfoot. It's a great course.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great

• I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Free

• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

  

  James Woods
  • People
  • Community
  • Evil

• As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Professional

• Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • May
  • Hope
  • Night

• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Different
  • Money

• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

  

  David Sobel
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • inspirational

• My goal is definitely a gold medal still in Rio.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Goal
  • Gold
  • Still

• Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• I've been given that gift of working with Jack Nicholson and James Coburn and certain people who just out of nowhere break into stories - talking about working with Alfred Hitchcock or Kubrick. That's my real reward of my career.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Career

• What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Growth
  • Economic
  • Waste