Vandana Shiva Quotes

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

Vandana Shiva

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• I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Thought

• Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Will
  • Divided
  • Jerusalem

• Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Good
  • Perfect

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Always
  • Rock
  • Back

• I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• I'd do anything to help veterans.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Help
  • Anything
  • Veterans

• Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Small
  • Me
  • Small Things

• Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • World
  • Model
  • Acting

• I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Children
  • Want
  • House

• Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Universe
  • Personality

• It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Friends

• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Believe
  • Job
  • House

• I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

  

  Katharine Ross

• I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

  

  David Fincher

• I'm just terrible with watching movies.

  

  Alyson Stoner

• A man's mind should be single to the glory of God in everything that he starts to accomplish. We should consider that of ourselves we can do nothing. We are the children of God. We are in darkness, only as God enlightens our understanding. We are powerless, only as God helps us. The work that we have to do here is of that nature that we cannot do it unless we have the assistance of the Almighty.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Work
  • God
  • Mind

• The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Country
  • War

• It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

  

  Vandana Shiva