Edward Abbey Quotes

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

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• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Future
  • Community
  • Space

• Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Educated
  • Witty
  • Proverbs

• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Man
  • Personality

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Team
  • Win

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Balance
  • Fight
  • Self-Esteem

• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • She
  • Brave

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

  

  E. B. White
  • Difficult
  • Christmas
  • Year

• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Learned

• Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Live
  • Country
  • Saying

• On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • Man
  • Moon

• My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Game

• I just love the world of photography.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • World
  • Photography

• I get offered varied parts, often super sexy roles. But I still think it's an issue to find the good scripts. It's a myth that you win an Oscar and you get more opportunities, and this doesn't just go for me.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Sexy

• I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Believe
  • Father

• I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Change

• The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

  

  Edward Abbey