Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a… — William Feather Copy Share Image
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are… — Carver Mead Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner;… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Climate change is real, caused by human activity and already devastating our nation and planet. The United States must lead the world… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but… — Joyce Jillson Copy Share Image
Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity. — Madonna Kolbenschlag Copy Share Image
Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease,… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex,… — John Norman Copy Share Image
You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
