George Schaller Quotes

#1. I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

Ramon Magsaysay

#2. Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#3. A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

George Schaller

#4. These things made me feel like I could stand in one place my whole life and never run out of new things to discover. I liked that so many things were out there, waiting to be known.

Ali Benjamin

#5. He looked around the room and felt heartburn coming on like the drunk mother of a friend.

Joel Kaplan

#6. There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

George Schaller

#7. Certain truths in life can only be seen with eyes cleansed by tears.

Pope Francis

#8. I couldn't have written things like 'Low' and 'Heroes,' those particular albums, if it hadn't have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

David Bowie

#9. Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

Dave Eggers

#10. Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

Barry Manilow

#12. When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

Leighton Meester

#13. You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

George Schaller

#14. I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Devin Kelley

#15. My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

George Schaller

#16. When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Al Yankovic

#17. Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

George Schaller

#18. Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

George Schaller

#19. It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

John Lyly

#20. I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team.

Derrick Rose

#21. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout

Harper Lee

#22. To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

George Schaller

#23. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

George Schaller