Sequester Quotes

#1. If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

Winona LaDuke

#2. The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Tristram Stuart

#3. It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

Mitch McConnell

#4. Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Donella Meadows

#5. Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.

Tobias Smollett

#6. Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

Annalee Newitz

#7. Through the sequester'd vale of rural life
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

#8. I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Justin Amash

#9. We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time.

Chris Christie

#10. Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

#11. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

George Will

#12. Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

Dick Dale

#13. Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#14. I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

Shirley Hazzard

#15. King, they work, because they must. We work, because we are in love with life. That is why they condemn us as unpractical, and we condemn them as lifeless.

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

Carine Roitfeld

#17. Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

John Dryden

#18. The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.

Richard M. Weaver

#19. I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

Steve Sabol

#20. Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

Simon Sinek

#21. I was not a big comic-book reader.

Brad Bird