Edward Abbey Quotes
If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.Edward Abbey
Quotes to Explore
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
Barack Obama -
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner -
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
Harmon Killebrew -
No one should be left to suffer alone.
Daisaku Ikeda -
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey -
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
Beau Willimon
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
Gabrielle Giffords -
The world wants to like America.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. Bradley -
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Eddi Reader
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
Dan Lipinski -
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
Fisher Stevens -
My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
Eddie Huang -
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga -
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen -
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
C. J. Mahaney
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I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.
Jeff Bridges -
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.
Rivers Cuomo Weezer -
I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
And here's the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.
Lindsey Graham -
Bene ascolta chi la nota.
Dante Alighieri -
If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
Edward Abbey