Rapids Quotes

269 Rapids quotes by 245 unique authors

One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process… — Naomi Klein
The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been… — Barry Commoner
We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than… — Winston Churchill
You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as… — Leonardo da Vinci
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. — Al Bernstein
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,. — Howard Hughes
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will… — Werner Herzog
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise,… — Sara Jeannette Duncan
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in… — John Muir
In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks… — Arno Hintjens
She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging. — Frederick Lenz
In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind. — Forrest Griffin
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as… — Hsing Yun
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the… — Fanny Kemble
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar… — Fanny Kemble
Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own… — James Anthony Froude
I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube… — Al Franken

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