Edward Abbey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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 -
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 -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke -
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Laurance Rockefeller
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
Imran Khan -
The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
Naomie Harris -
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 -
I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
Adam McKay -
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 -
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
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
Walt Disney
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Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Adolf Hitler -
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
Jamila Woods -
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Marc Webb -
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw -
I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.
Kieran Culkin -
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
Edward Abbey