Ian Goldin Quotes

#1. People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

Ian Goldin

#2. Yet but three come one more.
Two of both kinds make up four.
Ere she comes curst and sad.
Cupid is a knavish lad.
Thus to make poor females mad.

William Shakespeare

#3. We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Ian Goldin

#4. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

#5. My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

Gale Gordon

#6. Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

Cornel West

#7. Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

Ian Goldin

#8. Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

Douglas Wilson

#9. Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#10. If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Marianne Williamson

#11. I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

Ian Goldin

#12. Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

Ian Goldin

#13. Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Agnetha Faltskog

#14. I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.

Pauline Quirke

#15. From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

Dave Grohl

#16. Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Richard Cecil

#17. Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

Ian Goldin

#18. It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

Jack Dee