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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
-
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.'
-
Nothing exists except through language.
-
One can not impede scientific 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.
-
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
-
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
-
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
-
Hemingway was a jerk.
-
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.
-
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
-
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
-
I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
-
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.
-
There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
-
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
-
Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
-
My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.
-
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
-
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
