Elizabeth May Quotes

I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Work

• Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • American
  • Library
  • Citizenship

• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Think
  • Feeling

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Money
  • Power

• Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

  

  Urie Bronfenbrenner
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Environment

• If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

  

  Wakas Mir
  • Chocolate
  • Half
  • Bars

• It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Hope
  • Despair

• We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Habit
  • Act
  • Excellence

• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  

  Aristotle
  • Praise
  • Higher
  • Standard

• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Different
  • Theories
  • Exaggeration

• As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Write
  • Soon
  • Darts

• Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Why
  • Die

• I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

  

  Doris Day
  • World
  • Stop
  • Animal

• The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Problem
  • Enough
  • Biographers

• I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Citizens
  • Don't Think
  • Falls