2020 Conference Quotes & Sayings

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him. — Helen Van Wyk

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light. — Gary Zukav

Models are models - and the real world is different. For example, for the last three years the world economy has grown significantly, but emissions have stayed flat - which wasn't supposed to happen for decades. The commitments that nations made in Paris won't kick in until 2020, but many are already implementing their pledges and moving ahead of schedule. The Marrakech Climate Change Conference, around the time of the 2016 U.S. Elections, saw the rest of the world setting strong new goals, with Germany submitting a plan to cut its climate footprint by 95 percent, and twenty-nine new regional and local governments (many in China) committing to similarly deep emissions cuts. — Carl Pope

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad

Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny. — Steven Redhead

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. — Garth Stein

she answered with an impatient scowl. — James A. West

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. — Jerry Falwell

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself. — Shirley Maclaine

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I think he decided to be one kind of guy but liking us is rattling that kind of guy and that's why he's gruff and grumpy. I think maybe we just leave him alone and be gentle and maybe things will work out. You can't make people be who they don't want to be yet. You just be gentle and let them get there themselves. — Brian Doyle

And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind. — Anthony Doerr

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up! — Catherine Jinks