Lillian Smith Quotes
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
-
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
-
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
-
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
-
I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
-
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-
I've always been extremely physically active.
-
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
-
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
-
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
-
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
-
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
-
Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
-
Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
-
As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
-
Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.
-
We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
-
I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.
-
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
