Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...

Ban Ki-moon

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Albert Schweitzer

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people

Tom Hanks

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

Sam Harris

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

Sam Harris

Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

Sam Harris

Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

Stephenie Meyer

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

John Conyers

a serious abuse of power or a serious abuse of official duties.

Tom Malinowski

And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command.

Dana Perino

The signing statement makes clear that the president will faithfully execute the law in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution. The president has welcomed at least seven Inspector General reports on the Patriot Act since it was first passed, and there has not been one verified abuse of civil liberties using the Patriot Act.

John Kelly

The taxpayer should not pick up the bill for abuse committed by members of the religious orders.

Santiago Durango

No, we did one more as that Silver Abuse and for that we did a full set and we broke up 'cause I didn't want to play with them anymore.

Michael Copps

The sheer economic power created by this mega-combination, and the opportunities for abuse that would accompany it, outweigh the very limited public interest benefits that either the applicants or the majority find here. The more I review the issues at stake in this proposal, the more I am persuaded it should not go forward.

Kevin Malone

The shadier car dealers will make them think they have to accept the new terms. That is where the abuse comes in. You don't have to accept the new terms.

John Andrews

I urge everyone to offer their support to recovering addicts during this time of year, and to recognize that substance abuse affects people from all walks of life. For recovering alcoholics like myself, New Year's Eve threatens our chance to reclaim our lives. With support, however, recovering addicts can continue on their path to sobriety.

Karen Finney

This is going to be a huge issue. This smacks of abuse of power.

Ashley Scott

Things were different when I was single though, and I'd go out all the time and dudes would do their thing. i don't really go out much now though.

Jamie Dimon

Our global corporate investment bank competes with Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and a bunch of other banks that are in those businesses. We may have slightly different products or services, but so what? That's always been true in American business.

Bobby Farrelly

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Allan Gurganus

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Andy Richter

It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

Robert Fripp

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.