James R. Schlesinger Quotes

#1. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

Jack Gleeson

#3. The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.

Chris Evans

#4. In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

Thomas Malthus

#5. When you are looking to meet someone,
you are looking to settle.
Becaue you are not looking for someone,
you are looking for anyone

Lauren Conrad

#6. One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Robert Hughes

#7. We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

James R. Schlesinger

#8. I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.

Mark Bowden

#9. Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s ... That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

James R. Schlesinger

#10. Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

James R. Schlesinger

#11. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

James Chace

#12. Life is messy
especially now
it will help if you accept the mess and let it be.

Kristin Hannah

#13. Our relationship was a lot like underwear in a dryer without a static control sheet. One minute we were floating through life, buoyant and carefree. The next we were attached at the crotch

Darynda Jones

#14. Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action -- to insure that scarce resources are employed productively rather than wastefully.

James R. Schlesinger

#15. We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.

James R. Schlesinger

#16. When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

Brendan Iribe

#17. Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Tracy Chapman

#18. I don't want to die without a few scars..

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

James R. Schlesinger