Ellen MacArthur Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
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The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
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Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
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Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.
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The earth has music for those who listen.
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Genuine passion knows no mercy.
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The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.
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I consider myself a musician. I like to play everything.
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The poor are not a problem to be solved but a people to join.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
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Four are the highest in creation: the lion among the beasts, the ox among cattle, the eagle among the fowls, and man above these; but God is the highest of all.
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Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
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I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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If there's anything material and we didn't report it we'd be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
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It's been an absolutely unbelievable voyage, both physically and mentally.
