Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

David Suzuki

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Bill Nye

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

Cass Sunstein

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

Alan Lowenthal

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

Gina McCarthy

We're going to drive the nation into doing what it has to do about climate change. Times have changed, and we have to get the hint.

Austin Farrer

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Brian Cox

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

James Yonts

We also shift our tactics, we also shift our intelligence and our operational forces to combat the enemies.

H. Hunt

Working together as a community is the greatest thing we can do to combat these crimes. Even if we double the law enforcement officers that we have today, we still can't have officers on every corner of the street.

Doug Schreiber

Through our first five games, we have seen four or five possible All-Americans. Our defense has been playing OK, but we need to tighten up some things so we can combat the other team's pitching.

Jayanti Owens

Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools to help students enact policies and programs and found student organizations that combat systems of inequality in higher education.

Bruce Gombar

When these guys are over there, they don't have any place to spend their money. And they get combat pay. So when they come back, they are pretty flush.

Ruslan Pukhov

There are lots of women working in the army, lots of construction troops, railway troops, you name it. And the combat troops, well-equipped and well-trained, there are less than 100,000.

Olli Rehn

Significant efforts are needed to effectively combat organized crime and corruption, especially at high level.

Thomas Jefferson

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

Bethany Mota

When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.

Alan Rickman

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

C. Wright Mills

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

Tyler Brand

We stressed in the locker room before the game that we wanted to come out with energy and intensity, and we didn't do that right at the start. But I was happy with us extending our lead and making that run.

Flip Saunders

When you watch film, you see we're maybe not getting to spots quick enough. Or there are some things where we lack the energy that I know when we get rest that we have. So we'll see.

Gretchen Rubin

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

David Walton

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

Josh Fox

Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel like the rest of them.

Robert T. Bakker

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Chris Stringer

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

Linda Watson

I see this as very important because of America's heavy reliance on fossil fuels.

Charles Bennett

This light is just invaluable. It's really the only fossil we have from that time.

Richard Hulbert

It's likely that we will find over 100 individual skeletons. No fossil site in the world has ever been like that.

Taylor Wilson

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

Jill Soloway

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Greg Brunner

Just making shots slows (Michigan State) down a little bit. And then we had some silly turnovers that we don't normally have. That just better fuels their offensive aggression.

Angel Mata

If it's down a lot (people are investing in it). Everyone says this can't be sustained, but that's what fuels the markets.

Lydia Lunch

I watch the news. It fuels my rage; it informs my work.

Chauncey Billups

Any time something like that happens, it just fuels our fire. Good luck other team.

Clara Furse

This all fuels growth on SETS ... it's a secular story.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Noam Chomsky

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Uday Bhaskar

I don't think it poses a security threat.

Arlo Elkins

This is one of the better teams we've ever had. Every team poses a threat to us, but I think this is going to be a very successful season for us.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Donald Trump

Nuclear is the single greatest threat.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Jim Fowler

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Theodore Roosevelt

The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.

Russell Brand

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

Steve Irwin

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

Steve Irwin

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.