Quotes about "Climate & Sustainability"

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil. ”

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can. ”

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. ”

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule. ”

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to. ”

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ”

Get busy living, or get busy dying. ”

I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle. ”

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. ”

I would not advise a young player to even listen to Byron Scott, because he is the worst coach at communicating with young guys, and I'm living proof. ”