Constraining Resource Quotes & Sayings

And if by some miracle he did manage to start the truck, Pigpen and Dust would stand around it like human cement pillars. — Katie McGarry

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game. — Bryce Courtenay

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. — Josh Billings

Everyone hits bottom their own way. — Eileen Brennan

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. — Matt Groening

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell

Well, it's not MY fault you're such an AIRHEAD that if you open your mouth I can hear the ocean! I shot back. — Rachel Renee Russell

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in. — Karl Pilkington

Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again. — Joe Eszterhas

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. — Isabel Allende

As a believer, you have the authority to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus — Pedro Okoro

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality. — Erich Von Stroheim

The limits on a growing system may be temporary or permanent. The system may find ways to get around them for a short while or a long while, but eventually there must come some kind of accommodation, the system adjusting to the constraint, or the constraint to the system, or both to each other. In that accommodation come some interesting dynamics.
Whether the constraining balancing loops originate from a renewable or nonrenewable resource makes some difference, not in whether growth can continue forever, but in how growth is likely to end. — Donella H. Meadows