Overpumping Quotes

#1. Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.

Lester R. Brown

#2. I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refining the legacy of a won galactic war.

Iain M. Banks

#4. Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

Jack Kornfield

#5. It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds.

Billy Graham

#6. Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets.

Carlos Wallace

#7. Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original ... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Hugh Hopper

#8. You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.

Gillian Flynn

#9. I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#10. Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman