Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Sarah Palin

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Vladimir Putin

Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.

Vladimir Putin

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.

Vladimir Putin

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Vladimir Putin

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Vladimir Putin

Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Samuel Wilson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Warren Christopher

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

W. S. Merwin

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Wendell Berry

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Jimmy Smith

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

Jonny Greenwood

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

Jacques Plante

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Katy Perry

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

Todd Hanson

The last four years we've gone to Bangor, and every time we'd pass Augusta I'd think to myself, another hour and fifteen minutes to go. Purists wanted to keep (the tournament) in Bangor, but it was time.

Bea Arthur

So what does it all mean? You become a popular TV personality. Fifteen million viewers weekly. Top ratings.

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Albert Einstein

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.