David W. Orr Quotes
It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.
David W. Orr
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Patricia Schroeder
Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
K. Eric Drexler
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Taylor Swift
I've been down a long road;I'd become a stranger to myself.Digging in my heels and hoping time might be kinder if I wait it out.But nothing came from wanting.And I became so small and insecure.Didn't know the cost of all I'd lost till I found it fresh and new again.
Sarah McLachlan
Bisognan di valor segni più chiari,Che por con leggiadria la lancia in resta:Ma fortuna anco più bisogna assai;Che senza, val virtù raro o non mai.
Ludovico Ariosto
There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
Auguste Comte
I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s
Christopher Hitchens
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'
Antonio Banderas
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy
Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable.
Astra Taylor
Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
Liam Fox
It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.
David W. Orr
