William H. Schlesinger Quotes

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

William H. Schlesinger

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• Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Children
  • Trying
  • School

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Food
  • College

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sun

• There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Genuine

• Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

  

  Yang Wanli
  • Words
  • Poetry

• When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Work
  • Electricity
  • Pump

• I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • People
  • Cool
  • Picture

• Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Chess

• They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

  

  Xunzi
  • People
  • Done
  • Common

• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Old
  • Gods
  • Ideals

• Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Different
  • Individual

• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Joy

• Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

  

  William H. Schlesinger
  • Humans
  • Depends
  • Species