Top 17 Laurance Quotes
#1. Music and opera are a big part of my life.
Ailyn Perez
#2. Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence ...
Laurance Labadie
#3. 'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.
Laurance Labadie
#4. Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.
Laurance Rockefeller
#5. Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
Laurance Rockefeller
#6. Hey Americans," he screamed furiously at the drones.
"Brothers of the wolf, sisters of the wind, children of the Sun! Send the Choctaw warrior a quick and merciful death, instead of abandoning us into slavery or shameful capture.
George Sorbane
#7. If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#8. We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.
William F. Laurance
#10. I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Laurance Rockefeller
#11. I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
Laurance Rockefeller
#12. If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for.
Laurance Kitts
#13. I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
Laurance Rockefeller
#14. Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Jonathan Cain
#15. Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.
John Sculley
#16. I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.
Francisco Goya
#17. In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is a todo madre, something which is 'wholly mother'.
John Hillaby
