Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Doug Dacar

Environmental issues have always been important to me.

Paul Watson

I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

Paul Farmer

The toxic soup, as it has been called, is touching every square inch of the flooded areas, ... That issue of the environmental cleanup is one that we have not typically faced with other disasters. It's not just the structural integrity of the buildings, but it's the whole issue of contamination: contamination of buildings, contamination of yards.

W. Hull

We will never prevent environmental degradation until we stabilize our population. We simply must face up to this issue eventually, and it can't be too soon.

Alex Steffen

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

Ali Smith

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

Donella Meadows

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Rhonda Jefferson

Though it looked like the same team we faced the first time, they had a lot more kills in this game then they did in the last one.

M. Wolfe

We're looking at a situation we've never really faced before.

Pete Carroll

But we have never faced a whole season with all of that following,

Ryan Kolb

Matt's been our leader this season and faced a lot of responsibility.

Paul Nocito

St. Anthony's was one of the better shooting teams we have faced this year.

Mick Stefanek

That was a really good team that we faced tonight. It's a tough loss, but I'm very proud of these kids and of the great season that we had.

Tommy Amaker

I am not sure we have faced a team like that before.

Howard Stern

I am now faced with a terrible dilemma.

Todd Law

Taylor is a pretty good team. They have lost only three games and you have to give them credit. They are probably the quickest team we have faced all season. I felt like we played pretty passively as the game went on after nice start.

Paul Farmer

The toxic soup is touching every square inch of the flooded areas,

Mike Easley

If you were flooded in Isabel and Alex, it's very likely you're going to get flooded in this storm as well, ... But the flooding will be expected, at this point, to be worse now than it was then.

Eric Cunningham

A lot were totally destroyed, ... Some were flooded and wind-damaged, so they had something to work with.

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

Mike Hill

Every inch of that thing is taken up with electronics, and hydraulics.

Unknown

Love is a thousand miles long but comes in six inch installments.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Jonathan Papelbon

If it was an inch higher, it would have shattered my ankle.

Don Kincaid

Most of the players on this tour are younger and some are just an inch away from playing on the PGA or Nationwide (tours).

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

Val Hiser

I wanted something that is in keeping with the integrity of the house.

John Ashcroft

protect the integrity of the system of justice.

Mark Blondin

It was about integrity and sticking up for each other.

Baruch Spinoza

Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

Ayn Rand

A house can have integrity, just like a person.

Jamie Bell

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

Janet Reno

If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.

Anton Chekhov

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Geoffrey Moore

And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Ron Klein

This is an issue that people are talking about. They want it fixed.

Patrick Kelly

This isn't an issue that's relevant to our research.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Digger Phelps

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

Elbert Hubbard

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

O. Henry

Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble!

Douglas Hofstadter

Irrationality is the square root of all evil

Confucius

I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

Robert Anton Wilson

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Stephen Hadley

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

Tom Clancy

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Joan Sutherland

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.