Quotes
Authors
Lester R. Brown

"Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize."

-- Lester R. Brown

#Fall Quotes #Ice Quotes #Fire Quotes

“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”
“The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.”

Source : "Q&A: Leos Carax Explains ‘Holy Motors’ and Why He Wants to Make a Superhero Movie". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 15, 201.
“In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.”
“Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.”
“To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.”
“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”
“I've always wanted to kick a duck up the arse”
“Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy carsâ€”for most people one of the most costly things they will ever ownâ€”with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.”

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