Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hansen

We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

James Hansen

We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.

Jeff Cooper

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Ellen G. White

Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

George Mason

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

Richard P. Feynman

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

Bill Self

There's not many things less important than the score at halftime.

Bill Crawford

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

C. S. Lewis

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Cecelia Ahern

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Carrie Underwood

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

Bette Davis

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Anton Corbijn

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Aulus Gellius

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Ray Bradbury

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Tacitus

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All vigor is contagious.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Richard Baxter

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

Samuel Johnson

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Samuel Johnson

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.