Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walliams

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

David Riesman

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

David Riesman

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

David Riesman

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

David Ricardo

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.

David Henry Hwang

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

David Hewson

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

David Horowitz

For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

David Hilbert

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Denis Hayes

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

Ann Douglas

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Chief Seattle

There is no such place as away.

Vandana Shiva

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Margaret Atwood

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Bear Grylls

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Alain de Botton

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Charles Darwin

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Cameron Sinclair

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Elie Wiesel

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Edward Norton

We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.