Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep

• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • World
  • Curiosity
  • Without

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Party
  • Speak

• Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Know
  • Health
  • Balance

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • You
  • Without
  • Prosperity

• I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • Women
  • Powerful

• I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Think
  • Light
  • Attention

• Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Art
  • Wise

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Transformation

• Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.

  

  Steve Truglia
  • Career
  • Standard
  • Qualification

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Transformation