D. James Baker Quotes

Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.

D. James Baker

• Climate
• Faster
• Warming

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Experiences

• those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Rest
  • Statement
  • Misgivings

• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Work
  • Help
  • Gun

• I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • American
  • Bad
  • Proud

• The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • May
  • Wish
  • Judgment

• My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We're the only developed country on Earth where this happens. ... And it happens once a week. And it's a one-day story. ... The country has to do some soul-searching on this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Soul

• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Energy
  • Tired

• For certain, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Lost
  • Place
  • Found

• When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

  

  Plato
  • Things
  • Attract
  • Greatful

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Discover
  • Brotherhood
  • Peoples

• Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

  

  Keith Floyd
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Which

• I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern, that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own. They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child. . . . True miracles are the ones whose makers will never be known. . . . Besides, isn’t it true that promotion is expensive? I will be the least expensive author of the publishing house. I’ll spare you even my presence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Books
  • Readers
  • Authors

• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Habits
  • Climate

• Our climate is warming at a faster rate than ever before recorded.

  

  D. James Baker
  • Climate
  • Faster
  • Warming