David Ehrenfeld Quotes

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

David Ehrenfeld

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• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • Action
  • Beginning

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Dad
  • College
  • Worked

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Day
  • Always
  • Doing

• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • People
  • War
  • Lie

• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Done
  • Own
  • Funeral

• One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real

• What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Different
  • Real
  • Die

• Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Education
  • College

• At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

  

  Li Peng
  • Trust
  • Understanding
  • Beginning

• I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Good

• The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Money
  • Scary

• Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

  

  Liz Vassey
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Nasty

• If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

  

  Martine Syms
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Simple

• Genesis means the beginning. But I put the A instead of the E because I didn't wanna be criticized in church and nothing like that. And it means the beginning, but in my city, I'm the only person that's on the West Coast that has a different sound, so I was thinking to myself, 'This the beginning of a new sound, a new person.'

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • City

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be.

  

  Niall FitzGerald
  • Stay
  • Sustainability

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Friend

• If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

  

  David Ehrenfeld
  • Selfish
  • Individualism
  • Sustainability