Abattement Pour Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to do an action-y thing, purely because I'm the least fit, healthy person in the world. I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually run and not get out of breath and collapse. I wanted to push myself, in that way. — Kaya Scodelario

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there. — Charles Kettering

Because six billion of us are pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy, we're fundamentally attacking the very ecological systems that keep us alive. Just like the goat that refuses to suckle its kids, we're in the process of eliminating ourselves. Think about the time line Charles drew in his talk about the boiling frog. For the first six thousand years, the impact of our evolutionarily unstable strategy was minimal and confined to the Near East. Over the next two thousand years, the strategy spread to Eastern Europe and the Far East. In the next fifteen hundred years, the strategy spread throughout the Old World. In the next three hundred years, it became global. By the end of the next two hundred years - which is now - so many people were following the strategy that the impact was becoming catastrophic. We're now about two generations away from finishing the job of making this unstable strategy extinct. — Daniel Quinn

Never run for an elevator. It looks needy. — Timothy Hurley

Shamira had done the unimaginable and although she had a reason to be mad, she should not have shot Tre like that. — Nika Michelle

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden