Top 28 John Holdren Quotes
#1. And it never occurs to anyone to admit a greatness that is not commensurate with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable puniness.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.
John Holdren
#3. The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.
John Holdren
#4. Thea! I was looking for you.
It was Eric's voice. Warm, eager-everything that Thea wasn't. She turned to see green eyes flecked with dancing gray and an astonishing smile. A smile that drew her in, changing the world.
Maybe everything was going to be all right, after all.
L.J.Smith
#5. I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
John Holdren
#7. I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.
Matt Groening
#9. I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.
Eddie Izzard
#10. When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all.
John Holdren
#11. Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.
Joe Budden
#12. Whatever the path that brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not realize it now.
Therefore,please open your ears.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.
Ilchi Lee
#13. Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
Big Boi
#14. My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.
John Holdren
#15. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
John Holdren
#16. It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
John Holdren
#17. Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#18. Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
John Holdren
#19. The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
John Holdren
#20. I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.
John Holdren
#21. Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.
John Holdren
#22. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy
John Holdren
#23. A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
John Holdren
#24. His cracked lips moved.
Beloved.
He couldn't say the word, but I knew it.
And so did his Fool.
Robin Hobb
#25. I have shed many tears.
I have been broken in my spirit.
But through it all, God's grace have lifted my soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States ... [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
John Holdren
#27. Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.
Michael Grant
#28. The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.
Stephen Hawking
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