Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

Stewart Udall

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • American
  • President

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts

• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Land
  • Village
  • Ruthless

• I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Divided

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Small
  • Tea

• I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Kids
  • Gay

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Job
  • Simple

• Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business