Chance Quote by Jerry Brown

People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely…

— Witold Gombrowicz

Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for…

— Sheri Fink

“If you can break key transmission lines, said Clarke, you can produce cascading, potentially catastrophic outages.”

— Ted Koppel

Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the…

— Sheila Jasanoff

As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically…

— Rod Dreher

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of…

— George Bernard Shaw

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other…

— George Stevens

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

— Frank Perdue

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

— Floyd Patterson

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but…

— Samuel Johnson