Val Plumwood Quotes

We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature.

Val Plumwood

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Art
  • Passion

• Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Basketball

• Star kids always get an upper hand at the start of their career. People in the industry often know them from the time they were toddlers, so they show support to them when their film is about to release.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

  

  Max Lucado
  • God
  • Heart
  • Nice

• It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Great
  • Die
  • Weird

• Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

  

  Edwin Moses
  • People

• I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.

  

  Bobb'e J. Thompson
  • Time
  • Blessed

• To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Career

• As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

  

  Lucas Grabeel

• Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Men
  • Journey
  • Adventure

• In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • Believe
  • Guilty

• Law is always better than war.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • War
  • Law

• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  

  Arthur Hopcraft
  • Football
  • Phenomenon
  • Psyche

• A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Firsts
  • Virtue
  • Modesty

• Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

  

  Fred Couples
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• We must find ways to rework our concepts and practices of human virtue and identity as they have been conceived, since at least the time of the Greeks, as exclusive of and discontinuous with the devalued orders of the feminine, of subsistence, of materiality and of non-human nature.

  

  Val Plumwood
  • Identity
  • Virtue
  • Ways