Rapids Quotes

269 Rapids quotes by 245 unique authors

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems… — Jonathon Porritt
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing… — Unknown Author
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than… — Unknown Author
It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest… — Dane Cook
It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they… — Gabrielle Union
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The… — Lydia Lunch
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Unknown Author
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was… — James E. Talmage
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is,… — Nathan M. Pusey
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. — Lars von Trier
The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important… — John Seely Brown
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species… — James Hansen
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in… — William O. Douglas
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed… — Albert Pike
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in… — Unknown Author
I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. — Binyavanga Wainaina
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the… — Unknown Author
Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities… — Sumner Redstone

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