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

• 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

• I have no weapon but nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Nonviolence

• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Evidence
  • Deductions

• I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Enough

• Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Move
  • Addiction
  • Running Away

• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Respect
  • Person
  • Everything

• Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Worst
  • Equal
  • Middle

• 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