Earth Charter Quotes

#1. The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Maurice Strong

#2. The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.

Maurice Strong

#3. I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#4. I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#5. There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy

Pete Carroll

#6. Elect from every nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth;
Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace endued.

Samuel J. Stone

#7. When It Matters The Most, Don't Give Explanations; Just Release Your Statement!

Manthan R. Sheth

#8. Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou

#9. But how are you this fine evening? - My arches are falling. - Isn't that the first line of a sonnet?

Patrick Ness

#10. I'm not sure we ever believe the simplest emotions in our art, although we see them all around us, every day.

Stephen King

#11. I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion ... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Lionel Richie

#12. A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Livy

#13. As for basic jokes about sex and even my religious stuff, I don't find any problems with that, even if I'm gigging in the Bible Belt, because religious people don't come and see me.

Jim Jefferies

#14. The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#15. there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path, or else he kills by conviction.

Agatha Christie

#16. A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

Paulo Coelho

#17. I'm going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because of He is God.

John Green

#18. I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

Deval Patrick