Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Alice Walker

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen

Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Albert Einstein

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

James Wolcott

In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.

Rupert Grint

Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

William Pitt

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Kahlil Gibran

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

Johnny Vegas

Science packages theory, places it on a throne, and honors and protects it much like a queen. Engineers make the queen come down from the throne and scrub the floor. And if she doesn't work, we fire her.

Robert J. Marks II

All I wrote about us is lies All I wrote about us is the truth

Nazim Hikmet