Moniz Quotes

#1. Saying of the Prophet
Oppression
When oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Idries Shah

#2. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Hume

#3. America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.

James Lankford

#4. The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

Ernest Moniz

#5. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Smedley Butler

#6. When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

James Arthur

#7. A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

Ernest Moniz

#8. Love is the only truth and the only way; anything else is the manifestation of love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#10. If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic,

Maria Rodale

#11. Evil and I are old adversaries. When we compete I hate to lose, Manny Bettencourt from Murder in the Pinelands

Larry Moniz

#12. After counting all the sheep in the world
I enumerate the wildebeests, snails,
camels, skylarks, etc.,
then I add up all the zoos and aquariums,
country by country.
By early light I am asleep
in a nightmare about drowning in the Flood,

Billy Collins

#13. The internet, where everything is free except porn sites.

Larry Moniz

#14. We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

Ernest Moniz

#15. We have two kinds of air: regular and chunky style.

Johnny Carson

#16. I can't stand terminally stupid people.

Larry Moniz

#17. Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

Ernest Moniz

#18. The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

James Jeans

#19. If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936

Robert Harris

#20. It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.

Midge Costanza