"It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and biodiversity - for every product and service. There can be no free lunch on the environment."

-- Klaus Topfer

#Air Quotes #Land Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.”
“Satire is focused bitterness.”
“I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.”
“Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing
“What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can”
“The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.”
“One can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.”
“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

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