Nordhaus Quotes

#1. In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

Lee Iacocca

#2. For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.

Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike

#3. Sunlight streamed through grumbling storm clouds that played like tiger kittens around the mountain ridges.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#4. An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

William Nordhaus

#5. The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

Felix Wantang

#6. Vann also came to realize something else. As offensive as the lack of cultural awareness in the office was, part of that deficit was his own. They didn't understand him, but he didn't understand them, either. (197)

Tanner Colby

#7. That the more things resemble each other, the stronger the sympathetic link between them will be.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.

Theodore Dalrymple

#9. We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Joseph J. Romm

#10. Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be.

Alice Notley

#11. My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

Wolf Blitzer

#12. Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

William Nordhaus

#13. Inside me there is a fire stocking
I burn with passion
Whilst people only see a whiff of smoke
I am told by an inner voice
The human spirit on fire is the most unrelenting force in the deafening silence of the universe.

Gabriel Iqbal

#14. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Neal Shusterman

#15. The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

William Nordhaus

#16. Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Hannah Nordhaus

#17. When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.

Sophie Okonedo

#18. Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Elizabeth Edwards

#19. A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

Shannon Ables

#20. Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

Hannah Nordhaus

#21. If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories ... this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.

Hannah Nordhaus

#22. The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.

William D. Nordhaus

#23. The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

Joel Edgerton