"Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die."

-- Bernie Siegel

#Decision Quotes #Refusal Quotes

“The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.”
“Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.”
“I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.”

Source : "Work hard - and play plenty of golf". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.
“Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?”
“I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a manner. But I guess when we're feeling lonely in life, we attack those who actually do love us. It's one of the things that characterizes human nature and can be summed up in one word: FLAWED.”
“The real lesson of 9/11 that I think we have still to learn is that this is a world of interdependence, in which all of the challenges of environment and climate change, of jobs, of disease, of war and terrorism, are cross-border problems that cannot be met one nation at a time.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.”
“The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.”

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