Alan Weisman Quotes

Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Two
  • Abortion
  • Fence

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Hope
  • Like
  • Dreams

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • You

• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Me
  • Hug

• The upside is that the army was refusing to prohibit, you know, big hairy men from going into the ladies' locker room. And I thought, 'Well, you know, maybe finally this will cut down on girls in the marines.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Men
  • Army

• I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up

• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • Peace
  • Sunshine

• Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

  

  Brian Keene

• We must get all the facts on the table, and then determine where we go.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann

• A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Freedom

• When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Think
  • Working

• I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Identity

• The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • People
  • War
  • Weekend

• Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • People
  • Write
  • Readable