We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
He's more of a slob than you? Instead of condemning, state your standards: 'I need to live in a place that's clean.… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you are from a well-respected family, often times you will have pressure to "live up to your family name." That is… — Adrienne Kress Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our approach has worked for us. Look at the fun we, our managers, and our shareholders are having. More people should copy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead,… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I want to win a championship with the best drivers, the best engineers and the best technology. As drivers, we want to… — Sam Bird Copy Share Image
There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more… — John Fiedler Copy Share Image
Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Were I to stop oil production, we'd have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Nobody knows but you what it is that’s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life.… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Our ACE proposal will reduce CO2 approximately the same levels that the Clean Power Plan would have, if it had been implemented.… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What I find so special about acting - especially being female in this world, and growing up with such intense standards of… — Brigette Lundy-Paine Copy Share Image
Apple does magical things, but it does magical things that are a combination of a product, a service, a system, and an… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
