Chico Mendes Quotes

#1. Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

Kurt Eichenwald

#3. Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.

Sinead O'Connor

#4. Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Anthony Of Padua

#5. I don't want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Olivia

#6. The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

R.A. Torrey

#7. Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#8. Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#10. At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

Chico Mendes

#11. I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

Richard Foreman

#12. I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word,

Chico Mendes

#13. No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Frank Norris

#14. The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

Ben Shahn

#15. When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

#16. Will Sumner was Jensen's college best friend, Dad's former intern, and the object of every one of my teenage fantasies.

Christina Lauren

#17. I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

Krista Tippett