Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.
Quotes to Explore
-
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
-
Nobody wants to give up good players.
-
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
-
I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
-
Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
-
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
-
I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
-
I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
-
Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
-
Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
-
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
-
No study is possible on the battlefield.
-
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
-
Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
-
At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
-
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.
-
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
-
I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.
-
Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
-
Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.
