Christiana Figueres Quotes

Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him.

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• My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sister

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Same

• It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Down
  • Looking
  • Restaurant

• God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Jesus

• I am done doing that, ... I don't see it getting any better.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Doing

• His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Light
  • Eyes

• I have been incredibly proud and incredibly humbled to have had a front-row seat in covering this election [2016]. I'm working the hardest I've ever worked. I'm on the air six days a week...covering this election has been historic and amazing, and it has helped me grow so much [as a journalist].

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Amazing
  • Proud
  • Air

• I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Trying

• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Why

• We'll collect feedback from that to see what our next steps should be.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Steps
  • Feedback

• The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

  

  Mary Astor
  • Man
  • Fishing
  • Fish

• I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Sacrifice
  • Worship God

• Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

  

  Edmundo Desnoes
  • Photographs
  • Gaze
  • Observed

• If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Home
  • Fun

• Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

  

  John Piper
  • Race
  • Issue
  • Damaging

• TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Issue
  • Privacy
  • Data

• Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him.

  

  Christiana Figueres
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