Greenwash Quotes & Sayings

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me. — Carine Roitfeld

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash. — James Hansen

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off. — George Carlin

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind. — Charlotte Bronte

Well, well," answered a cool, amused voice from somewhere above us. "And here you are again. Ethan Chase, your family does have a knack for getting into trouble. — Julie Kagawa

Those women like to see their tongues dance. — Ray Bradbury

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. — Smokey Robinson

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage. — Chris Paine

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good. — Kevin McCloud

Guys would take runs at me even if I didn't have the puck. [On one occasion] my coach told me that the other team were told to hit number 21 as hard as they could the first period, so we switched jerseys. — Cammi Granato

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash. — James Hansen

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. — James Broughton

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love. — Jane Ellen Harrison

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want. — Tony Robbins

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics. — C.V. Wedgwood

I prefer doing over watching. — Mary J. Williams

An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When — James MacDonald

The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will. — Robert Service