William Nordhaus Quotes
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
Quotes to Explore
-
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
-
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
-
As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
-
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
-
The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
-
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
-
An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
-
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
-
It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
-
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
-
Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
-
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
-
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
-
In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
-
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
-
I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
-
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
-
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
-
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
-
Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
-
I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
-
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
