Grzyboskis Trains Quotes & Sayings

One of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language is 'sustainability.' For most Americans, it means something like 'pretty much the way I live right now, though maybe with a different car.' A good test of any activity or product described as sustainable is to multiply it by 300 million (the approximate current population of the United States) and then by 9 or 10 billion (the expected population of the world by midcentury) and see if it still seems green. This is not an easy test to pass — David Owen

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. — Gene Wolfe

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth. — James Cook

However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable. — Pete Docter

A mind is a wonderful thing to change. — Andrew Sullivan

Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity. — Christina L. Barr

He's cu-ute." Bree LaRue stumbles sideways, shielding her eyes with one hand. "Aww, look at his hair. And the chin! He's like Laurence Olivier, and a cockatoo. Like if they had a baby? — J.C. Lillis

In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it. — Si Robertson

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do — Michael Josephson

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs. — Margaret Thatcher

this alien earth I stride will hold me down at last. But — Homer