"I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled."

-- Randy Olson

#Thinking Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Important Quotes

“You either control your mind or it controls you.”
“Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.”
“It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.21, Penguin UK
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.”
“If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!”
“In this age of space flight when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up to date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon, also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral Law of God.”
“To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.”
“Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.”

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