Achim Steiner Quotes

#1. I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

Michelle Jenneke

#2. The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature's services in a world of close to 7 billion people

Achim Steiner

#4. If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

Margot Robbie

#5. Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Achim Steiner

#6. If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we're running out of time.

Achim Steiner

#7. Sometimes you'll hear, 'People don't change.' This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: 'People don't change.' It says 'don't,' not 'can't.' (316)

Victoria Moran

#8. Chet! What are you eating?"

Nothing. It was true. The eating part was over.

Spencer Quinn

#9. I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

Brooke Fraser

#10. It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want.

Olivia Sudjic

#11. We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

Achim Steiner

#12. In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

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#13. Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

Chris Hayes

#14. If every animal shelter in the United States embraced the No Kill philosophy and the programs and services that make it possible, we would save nearly four million dogs and cats who are scheduled to die in shelters this year, and the year after that. It is not an impossible dream.

Nathan Winograd

#15. The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

Achim Steiner

#16. Prison... it changes you. I'm not the same man I was before going on the inside. I can't go back. I won't." "You were in prison less than twenty-minutes.

C.T. Phipps

#17. Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.

Achim Steiner

#18. The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

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#19. We have a responsibility to first understand how climate change impacts all peoples of the world. Then, we must consider the individual and collective choices and actions that can move us toward a sustainable future.

Achim Steiner

#20. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

Stephen Swid

#21. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.

Joseph Altuzarra

#22. Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

Achim Steiner