Ernest A. Fortin Quotes

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

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• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Years
  • Reputation
  • They Say

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Years
  • System
  • Welfare

• If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • God
  • Live
  • Society

• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Years
  • Living
  • Singer

• The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Years
  • Redemption
  • Beyond

• Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Stand
  • Within

• I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Years
  • Old
  • Ukulele

• One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • You
  • Years
  • Suicide

• The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Years

• Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Society
  • Single

• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• 'The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world'

  

  Maria Montessori
  • World
  • Men
  • Society

• Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Society

• A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Water
  • Air
  • Bird

• And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • Believe
  • True
  • Plant

• I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Time
  • Character
  • Star

• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Truth
  • Names
  • Errors

• If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

  

  Ernest A. Fortin
  • Society
  • Years
  • Humans