"In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced."

-- Barry Commoner

#Degradation Quotes #Substance Quotes #Recycling Quotes

“What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.”

Source : "Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes, Mostly Humorous" by Bennett Cerf, (p. 118), 1948.
“Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.”
“I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't expect to be so emotional, but I asked for it really. I'ma glutton for punishment.”
“To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.”
“The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.”

Source : "The Roadmap for Republicans Is a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.
“Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.”
“Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not”
“I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.”

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