Quotes of: Climate-change Keyword

Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to h...

Royal Assassin

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick,...

Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not w...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and the distinguished French lawyer Bartholomew Chassenée rose to fame as an advocate for animals. His work is commemora...

Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combined Which scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight, I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife, Where nothing is, but all things seem,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just as soon as I meet and learn to love a friend we must part and go our separate ways, never to meet on quite the same ground again. For, disguise the fact as we will, when friends, even the closest-and perhaps the more so on account of that very c...

L.M. Montgomery

~Remember this always: Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~ When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person has been affected emotionally to the point of fe...

Martin Suarez

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely...

Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. It is not to lead our neighbor into a corner where ther...

Henri J.M. Nouwen

We are all made good and positive declaration about the year 2015. We are all expecting breakthroughs in our lives, new things to happen to give us life changing. Guess what my friends, nothing is going to happen without action. We can't fold our han...

Euginia Herlihy

Veronica Quaife: You're changing Seth. Everything about you is changing. You look bad. You smell bad. Seth Brundle: I've never been much of a bather. Veronica Quaife: Those... weird hairs that were growing out of your back. I took them to a lab. I ha...

The Fly

Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

Consumed

If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

The Coming Storm

A mysterious ability, a broken promise, a life changed forever...

The Dream Jumper's Promise

Change is the mother of growth and maturity.

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.

The Elite

Still, the seeds of change have been sown in my mind, and they will not be easily forgotten.

The Feed

Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence.

The Front Porch Prophet

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Frankenstein

Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.

Here, Home, Hope