Unprecendented Quotes

#1. Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

Jeffrey Sachs

#2. I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

Chester Brown

#3. who lived along the U.S. side of the border.

J. A. Jance

#4. Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

Lionel Richie

#5. You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

Isla Fisher

#6. Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

Tim Birkhead

#7. Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

Mo Ibrahim

#8. When one has to seek the honour that comes from God only, he will take the withholding of the honour that comes from men very quietly indeed.

George MacDonald

#9. Centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

David Friedrich Strauss

#10. People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

Wendy Starland

#11. As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#13. I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

David R. Brower

#14. We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.

Karen Handel

#15. The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

Alice Liddell

#16. The superb use the mind as mirror, not welcoming nor rejecting, reflect without hiding, and triumph without harming. (Chuang Tzu)

Sung Yee Poon