Edward Davey Quotes

I want other European countries to be more ambitious... We can go green and we can do it in a cheap way. The cost of renewables has been coming down significantly.

Edward Davey

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• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • World
  • Technology
  • Computers

• Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Men
  • Women
  • Business

• The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Different
  • Real

• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Imagine you're drowning, and someone hands you a baby.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Baby
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feelings
  • Virtue
  • Actions

• Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.

  

  William Powell
  • Believe
  • Psychedelic
  • Quantity

• Opportunities? I make opportunities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunities
  • Make

• Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Quality
  • Identity

• A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Foreign Policy
  • Perfection
  • Security

• I'm so passionately hopelessly in love with my job! I think the definition of workaholic is that you can't wait till the weekend is over so you can start working again.

  

  Ann Shin
  • Love
  • Job
  • Workaholic

• There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Science
  • Heaven
  • Passions

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Earth
  • Listen
  • Meat

• The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul but few designers and wage rates are astonishingly high - which is a problem when trying to support and promote Afghan craft exports. The community in Murad Khani in the old city - who we are helping to restore their area - have been the best part so far - eccentric, led by a champion wrestler, determined, proud and courageous.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Support

• I want other European countries to be more ambitious... We can go green and we can do it in a cheap way. The cost of renewables has been coming down significantly.

  

  Edward Davey
  • Ambitious
  • Significantly
  • European countries