"More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water."

-- Ismail Serageldin

#Drinking Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.104, Morgan James Publishing
“If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.”
“At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.”
“All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusionâ€¦What you see is what you see.”

Source : Frank Stella, Robert Carleton Hobbs, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2002). “Frank Stella in 2002”
“I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles â€“ I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that â€“ I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life â€“ This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours”
“I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.”
“The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.”

Source : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up" Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.

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