Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

Nancy Gibbs

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DeathControlWillNeverHeatUp

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Jennifer Hyman

InnovationCreativityPeopleThink

New Yorkers were grateful when Donald J. Trump finished ahead of schedule and under budget in renovating the Wollman Memorial Rink, where the city had spent six years and $12 million trying to produce ice.

Andrew Rosenthal

GratefulCityBudgetTryingIceNew

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Jeff Goodell

ChangeWarThinkProblemMeeting

I obsess too much.

Meredith Brooks

Too MuchMuchTooObsess

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.

John Skipper

SportsTogetherPeopleThinkView

Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref.

Amy J. Berg

DailyPeopleFreeDrivingEconomy

J.D., MBAs typically go into the financial world. What I love is driving the top line.

Shira Goodman

LoveLove IsWorldFinancialDriving

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

Tom Petty

NeverWouldSongsCommercialPut

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

Tom Sturridge

FightWaitAmericanFeelSpecial

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

Mary Whitehouse

TodayManMeWeekCountrySay

In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people.

Ruth Bradley

LifePeopleFriendsSeeJustFemale

Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state.

Michael Korda

QueenReadingWeekLongMeetingGo

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