Galloping Horses famous quotes

So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.