Donella Meadows Quotes

Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes.

Donella Meadows

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WaterWorldLimitsGrowFishDown

London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.

Jessica Hart

GreatStyleStylishLondonEveryone

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

GriefWordsDeepestFewest

There is no art without Eros.

Max Frisch

ArtWithoutEros

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Jeff Bezos

WillSkepticalNovel

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

Jeff Lemire

FearHeartCulturePeopleWorldWay

People in the movie division hate the people in the cable group... Ultimately, you work for NBCUniversal, not Bravo or Syfy.

Steve Burke

WorkHatePeopleYouGroupDivision

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Stephen Lewis

StrengthHopeGreatAfricaGives

In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?'

Simon Helberg

PeopleAmericaYouSayFirstThing

Life is a beautiful thing, but a lot of it, it kind of replicates itself.

Rob Halford

LifeBeautifulLife Is AKindThing

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

Joseph Morgan

QualityReadingKindUpLordRings

A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'

Christopher Poole

FatherBestDayMeUnderstandWay

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

MenI AmKnowIgnorantPretendSure

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