Alan Thein Durning Quotes
But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
Alan Thein Durning
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
Pat Buchanan
I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
Daniel Baldwin
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
Dan Ariely
When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
Patrick deWitt
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
Alexander Haig
I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.
Liam Fox
As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
Allen Toussaint
It was a team effort. We did everything that we needed for the win. You can't put it on one thing. We've been doing a lot of things well. We're playing well together. We're defending. We're doing a lot of positive things out there. We're putting ourselves in a (position) to win. We're giving ourselves a chance every night, just playing well defensively. We feel like every night we can score 100 points, but we've got to stop people.
Allen Iverson
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
Oscar Wilde
Amy Carmichael's great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
Elisabeth Elliot