Quotes About Genetically Modified Organisms

#1. The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Jeremy Rifkin

#2. We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

Nina Fedoroff

#3. In terms of the short-term objective [halving world hunger by 2015], the position I have always taken is that we don't need genetically modified organisms.

Jacques Diouf

#4. I was a human being once," said the younger ghost. "I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.

Anne Rice

#5. History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers ; but they may well enable them to survive in greater numbers.

John Gray

#6. I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

Franz Kafka

#7. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.

Melanie Iglesias

#8. In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

Ziyi Zhang

#9. But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#10. A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Ryan Lilly

#11. When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player ... now it's my turn to laugh.

Allen Iverson

#12. I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Don Mattingly

#13. American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

Sid Vicious

#14. Call Charlotte, no one calls Charlotte. Charlotte calls you.

Evelyn Smith

#15. To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#16. We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

Marc Lamont Hill