Donella Meadows Quotes

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

Donella Meadows

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PartyOilRightRepublicanBigger

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Jimmy Wales

WorldDirectionThinkPressureNeed

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

John Burroughs

WinterCoolGreenFreeSummerFrost

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Jerry Lewis

ChildMeDieAliveSaidWithin

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

John Chrysostom

WomenLawNothingOthersDivine

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Melissa Bean

IdentityNationTheftSuburbsCrimes

We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.

Angela Merkel

LifeFreedomStrongerKnowThanOur

You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.

John Tiffany

TruthYouGetOnlyTellingStories

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

Stephen Hawking

NatureDayProgressDesignUniverse

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

Robert D. Kaplan

HistoryInterestingNewsImportant

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

Miguel Cabrera

PeopleMeBadMadWayTalk

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

Michael Korda

MomentPastPresentBackReadyOver

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

Luke Evans

MenInsecurityBelieveUpShowMost

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Donella Meadows