Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Praise
  • Without

• I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Game
  • Past
  • Opportunity

• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Opportunity
  • Evil
  • Only

• I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Process

• If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Question

• I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.

  

  John Anderson
  • Opportunity
  • Value

• The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

  

  David Elliott
  • Important
  • Art
  • Why

• I don't have a number, I just want to catch them all. That's always my goal is to maximize every opportunity and every throw that's coming my way.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Opportunity

• You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

  

  Al Lewis
  • Opportunity

• Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Long
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Music
  • Important
  • Live

• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The transition to clean energy should not be viewed as a burden to be overcome but, rather, an extraordinary job creation opportunity for the United States.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Energy

• Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • College

• We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

  

  Anand Mahindra

• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • American
  • America
  • King

• Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Election

• I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Guy

• All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Opportunity
  • Species
  • Populations