Ecologically Responsible Quotes & Sayings

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows. — Margaret Atwood

I think that's nonsense. We're not snowflakes. We're just outputs for a set of inputs." I stop nodding. "Like a formula?" "Exactly like a formula." He props himself up to his elbows and looks at me. "I think there are one or two inputs that matter the most. Figure those out and you've figured out the person. You can predict anything about them. — Nicola Yoon

I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgivable. She knew, she said, but that was part of what had been confusing her, that I would even have told her that, as if she weren't an actual human being with the freedom to act, but some character in a scenario in my head. There was a quality I had of making the people closest to me feel lonely, somehow. Some essential cold withholding at the core of myself. — Garth Risk Hallberg

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product. — Victor Papanek

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. — Anais Nin

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them. — C.S. Friedman

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. — Victor Papanek

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle. — Rita Rudner

If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see more ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between. — Glen Duncan

How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe. — Abhijit Tripathi

usually perfectly curled and braided, has been slicked back into a simple bun. When I see gray at her temples, — Victoria Aveyard

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it. — Tristram Stuart