Cirillo Quotes & Sayings

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. — Kim Stanley Robinson

It's kind of a funny world we live in today with tabloids and all. I feel there's so much negativity out there and people sense that people only want to read things that either are controversial or negative, therefore you end up dealing with people lying about your life and having to answer to things that become ridiculous with an onslaught of lies and you have to answer to them. — Kate Hudson

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing. — Barack Obama

'If only' is the excuse of the loser; 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner. — William Arthur Ward

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness. — Elisabeth Elliot

What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the cerebellum on fire. It took him a long time to adapt himself to this excoriation. — Samuel Beckett

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. — George McGovern

She knew he'd be the one, to put her back together, piece by broken piece. — Jamie Cirillo

Intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it. — Lynne Truss

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. — Gilles Deleuze

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take. — Trent Reznor