William Vogt Quotes

Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

William Vogt

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• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Company
  • Chinese

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Food
  • Just

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Interesting

• By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Campus

• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Service
  • Software
  • Data

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• 'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Success
  • Law
  • Opinion

• Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• What I'm saying is, 'Look, life is a long thing, and I don't need enemies. I need friends just like Donald Trump.'

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Life
  • Long
  • Friends

• The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

  

  Alain Juppe

• Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Standards
  • Failures
  • Successes

• Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • May
  • She
  • Years

• Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

  

  Nicholas Mosley
  • Earth
  • About
  • Becomes

• Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

  

  William Vogt
  • Earth
  • Journey
  • Walking