I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
~By Keith Henson ~
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
~By Lee Trevino ~
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
~By John Dykstra ~
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex.
~By Tony Conrad ~
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
~By Richard Morris ~
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.
~By James Cameron ~
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
~By Robert De Niro ~
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
~By Curt Flood ~
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
~By Ted Danson ~
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
~By Elizabeth Bibesco ~
I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
~By Christy Turlington ~
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
~By Pat Buckley ~
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
~By Albert Claude ~
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
~By Alice Hoffman ~
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
~By Barry Commoner ~
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
~By Ted Danson ~
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
~By Martina Navratilova ~
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
~By Robert Creeley ~
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
~By Karl Kraus ~
But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
~By Rick Allen ~
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.
~By Marie Osmond ~
You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
~By Liz Phair ~
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
~By M. H. Abrams ~
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
~By Thomas Gold ~
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
~By Christine Todd Whitman ~
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
~By Spike Milligan ~
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~By James Lane Allen ~
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
~By Eric S. Raymond ~
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
~By Warren Christopher ~
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
~By Temple Grandin ~
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
~By Brian Boitano ~
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
~By Bill Nye ~
There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.
~By Brian Molko ~
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
~By Ted Nugent ~
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
~By Carl Andre ~
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
~By Jon Favreau ~
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
~By Brian De Palma ~
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
~By Sonny Bono ~
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
~By James Lovelock ~
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
~By Frank Murkowski ~
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
~By Donald Judd ~
We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
~By Donna Tartt ~
For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
~By Dario Fo ~
It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
~By Sarah Hughes ~
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
~By Mark Udall ~
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
~By Rose Schneiderman ~
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
~By Christian Bale ~
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~By Horace Mann ~
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
~By David Attenborough ~
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
~By Rick Yune ~
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
~By Bill Bradley ~
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.
~By Nestor Kirchner ~
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
~By John Hutton ~
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
~By David Milne ~
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
~By James J. Gibson ~
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.
~By John Romero ~
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
~By Galen Rowell ~
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
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