Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
Barbara Ehrenreich
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce en... JOHN OLVER All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [d... BRENDAN BARNICLE Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value enc... SYLVIA EARLE Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ... INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite... MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a h... MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky So many a midnig... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON The greatest cause of family breakdown is unemployment. This country of ours has the richest mineral... PAULINE HANSON Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile... LYDIA MILLET Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness. JEFFREY FRY Climbing oil prices and the problems with climate change make it ill-advised to sink more money into... JEFF MIKULINA Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people ... CAVETT ROBERT Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swi... SETH SHOSTAK That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored. HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. DAVID GERROLD It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar... KAREN MARIE MONING The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. LAURIE ANDERSON I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot,” I blurted out. “But I always knew you would be.” m... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. ... EUGENE H. PETERSON You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi... DARREN SHAN Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid ... NILESH RATHOD Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering ... MICHAEL MOORE The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of ... JOHN OLVER Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every yea... JEFF GOODELL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare... MARGARET MITCHELL We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 bi... ALBERT WYNN Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night... THE WONDER YEARS I remember a place... a town... a house like a lot of houses... a yard like a lot of other yards... ... THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had. THE WONDER YEARS Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When ... THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go. THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble.... THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners... THE WONDER YEARS Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you throug... THE WONDER YEARS Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memo... THE WONDER YEARS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON "O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field
Is shining white with fragrant immortelles
F... HELEN HUNT JACKSON (HELEN HUNT) Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperati... PETE GALLEGO The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W.E.B. DU BOIS the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero. ELIYAHU GOLDRATT The reality is nobody is going to be happy with the rate increases in any form. Unfortunately we hav... BRIAN DUPLESSIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. BILL WATTERSON The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. DAVID LEE ROTH Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you... HINA HASHMI Taking the path of least resistance is always helpful and peaceful, which is always in line with you... HINA HASHMI And do I ask, wherefore my heart Falters, oppressed with unknown needs? Why some inexpli... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA As we anticipated, we began drilling our third well in the Barnett Shale the last week of December 2... LAWRENCE FINN The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an arc... PETER EISENMAN The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'extern... JEFF GOODELL Throughout China, everyone does stir-fries, but only the Cantonese speak about wok hay. They're expe... GRACE YOUNG Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We need a vision that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels. But that's also public policy, and that ... SARAH WRIGHT You either serve at the foot of a king or he serves at your foot. There is one thing that can be cou... BOBBY W. MILLER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor... MURIEL BARBERY The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time ... SETH SHOSTAK By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER We never have to be uncertain when we have the God of truth and righteousness. TELEMA W. OKOBI You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. JACK HERER We can't just depend on fossil fuels. DANE ODA Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading t... JEFF GOODELL If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think the important thing is to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and this is a good start. DANIEL HUG We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey? BETTE DAVIS
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BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj... BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family. BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h... BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory... BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to... BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print. BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations. BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi... BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes. BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent. BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. BARBARA STEELE