Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Klein

In addition to mitigating climate warming, we should also be focusing on how to adapt. In the last few years people have realized that climate change will happen. Adapting is not a choice - it's something we need to do.

Jimmy Adams

The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.

Melinda Shiraki

It's just such a switch going from rescuer to victim, in a sense. It's just about adapting and surviving. You'd be surprised what you're capable of doing when you have no other choice.

Duncan Fletcher

It's a nice surprise and feeling to begin with a win. Our players shaped up well and we did a good job of adapting to the conditions.

Dominic Cooper

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Peter Jackson

Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.

Nicholas Mosley

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Debra Walker

As government and public scrutiny intensify, managed care executives need to be adept at making staff accountable for improving operational efficiencies, successfully adapting to new regulations, and increasing customer satisfaction. This type of change requires complex leadership skills and highly evolved leaders.

Jacques Villeneuve

Normally the good teams stay in front when there is a regulation change, the teams that do the most testing and have the most budget end up adapting fastest. From pre-Christmas testing it's very difficult to know because not every team was running with V8s, so it's really impossible to know where anybody stands at the moment.

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Steve Robinson

It could be that there's a climate there that creates the stigma which prevents people from coming forward,

Geno Auriemma

I think because of Diana (Taurasi playing for the Mercury), circumstances are different in this one, ... Maybe people sense that the climate is different at Connecticut than it was in the past.

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Samuel Johnson

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Leonardo DiCaprio

We only get one planet.

Ken Livingstone

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

Craig Bennett

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

Henry Ward Beecher

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

Carl Jung

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Aristotle

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aeschylus

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Alexander Pope

Mankind is unamendable.

Czeslaw Milosz

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Sophocles

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Jim Webb

I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Towny Anderson

There are just too many reasons to do that.

E. O. Wilson

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

Ronald Fisher

We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.

John Steinbeck

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Jacqueline Carey

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

Erwin Schrodinger

In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Franz Liszt

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

C. S. Lewis

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Alex Honnold

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Dr. Beebe

You've got to try and normalize your life. I just walked around every morning, the same as I do here (in Connecticut).

Greg Beratlis

We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there.