Colin Beavan Quotes

#1. When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?

Colin Beavan

#2. We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

Colin Beavan

#3. People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Don Johnson

#4. The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

Colin Beavan

#5. Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.

Colin Beavan

#6. You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

Craig Venter

#7. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food packaging makes up twenty percent of our solid waste nationwide.

Colin Beavan

#8. God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger.

Joseph Mery

#9. So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

Gordon Gee

#10. When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Rick Warren

#11. Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?

Colin Beavan

#12. I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

M. Night Shyamalan

#13. There is a reason why trash bags aren't made of transparent plastic.

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#14. All of our potentials for good are unlimited.

Colin Beavan

#15. If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

Colin Beavan

#16. I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it.

Colin Beavan

#17. The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Grace Lee Boggs

#18. A heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

Caroline Pafford Miller

#19. Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

Colin Beavan

#20. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Colin Beavan

#21. I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Abraham Lincoln

#22. Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

Colin Beavan

#23. We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

Colin Beavan