Harp Seal Quotes

#1. Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Brian Skerry

#2. I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Brian Skerry

#3. Arcitc Harp seal pup populations are declining as they are commercially hunted for oil and fur and global warming causes the ice where pups are born to break up and melt. Now these sweet and adorable pups face yet another human threat: oil spills.

Zoe Helene

#4. Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

Eric Ries

#5. I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.

Paul Watson

#7. This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

Jane Smiley

#8. And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Margaret Widdemer

#9. He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.

Bernard Werber

#10. People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

John Sununu

#11. Everything in the world finds peace - eventually.

Tao Okamoto

#12. Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#13. Almighty God guide us to the right destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Charles Kuralt

#15. There's a reason the Third World came in third.

Jim Goad

#16. Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven

Allen Ginsberg

#17. My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.

H.G.Wells

#18. The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

Russell Wilson