J. Maarten Troost Quotes

We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

J. Maarten Troost

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: 1969

Topics

ChangeLiveSeaThinkEarthBeyond

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

LiveKnowledgeSeaIgnoranceIsland

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

Megan Fox

TimeMyselfMoneySupportMeMom

I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.

John Hurt

LoveCrazyMadYoungAbsolutely

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

Robert Jackson

FinalBecauseOnlyInfallible

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

Michael Gove

HopeControlFishBackWillSee

I've always had my wrist slapped for being myself.

Amy Schumer

MyselfBeing MyselfAlwaysBeingHad

The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi

CommunityTrustGovernmentDemocracy

When we were kids, we couldn't even afford to watch Thierry Henry on Match of the Day.

Romelu Lukaku

DayWatchKidsEvenMatchAfford

I really was going to run for Congress.

Jon Taffer

CongressRunGoingReally

I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

Cherie Lunghi

DoingRememberYouKeepGetBotox

The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.

Sydney Greenstreet

GodBestMindHelpYouCooperation

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Thomas Sowell

PeopleStupidDecisionsHandsWrong

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