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Donella Meadows Quotes

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Donella Meadows

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 13, 1941 - February 20, 2001

Topics

End Surprise Environment Doing Up

I just kept making social mistakes in my career.

Jimmy Iovine

Mistakes Career Social Just Making

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

Find Done Nothing Fault Well Would

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

Jeff Bridges

Voting Hands Cards Create Go Want

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

Metta World Peace

Me Fighting Career Shoot Anyway Lot

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

Amy Gerstler

Poetry People Think Weird Look Kind

I really consider acting a high art.

Miles Teller

Art Acting High Consider Really

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Time Myself School Speak Said Choir

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Truth Religion Bible Fountain

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

Time Losing Battle Fighting You

If you're really looking to hurt somebody's feelings, just break up with them.

Chelsea Handler

Looking Hurt You Feelings Up Break

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

Claude M. Bristol

Believe Think Thinking Person Image

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

Shawn Amos

Government People Problems Black