Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Drake Bell

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Donella Meadows

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Dodie Smith

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Dalai Lama

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Tariq Ramadan

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

Steven Erikson

Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Susan Sarandon

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

Sonia Sotomayor

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Dan Aykroyd

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Peter Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Jason Momoa

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Jeff Bezos

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?