Elizabeth May Quotes

Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.

Elizabeth May

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Brother

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Stop
  • Thought
  • Broken

• As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Fighting
  • Always
  • Never

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Money

• I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • God
  • Soul

• It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.

  

  Daniel Bell

• I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Girl
  • Boy

• The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Money
  • Political
  • Professional

• Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Job

• Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • World
  • War
  • Science

• We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Progress

• If you are going to make progress in aviation and aerospace, you've got to take some risks, and be willing to accept it. There were a lot of things going up and coming down that we didn't know, but we learned when we flew.

  

  John Young
  • Progress
  • Learned
  • Accept

• That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Why
  • American

• On this night, on this occasion, on this Olympic day, I was able to come through.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Night
  • Occasion
  • Olympic

• Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Progress
  • Public
  • Consultation