Vandana Shiva Quotes

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Vandana Shiva

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• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Direction

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Group

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Generation
  • Gone
  • Shoulders

• Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Friends
  • American

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • May
  • True

• I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Song

• One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Love
  • Responsibility

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Done
  • Wife
  • Quality

• At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Wife
  • Mom

• By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wonder
  • Fame
  • Comets

• Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Break
  • Substance
  • Misfortune

• I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Violence