John Vaillant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.
-- John Vaillant

#Chaos #Economic #Policy
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.
-- John Vaillant

#Long #Track #Firsts
The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.
-- John Vaillant

#Fall #Piano #Impact
Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929
-- John Vaillant

#Beautiful #Son #Cutting
Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.
-- John Vaillant

#Successful #Hunting #Animal
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?
-- John Vaillant

#Whales #Answers #Lions
Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..].
-- John Vaillant

#Cows #Sin
The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.
-- John Vaillant

#Hundred #Tigers
A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himselfâ€”who is he really?
-- John Vaillant

#People #Doe #Done

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
I am not confident that Europe can make it.
Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
It's my policy not to review funerals.
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.

John Vaillant famous quotes

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