Hardin Tragedy Of The Commons Quotes & Sayings

America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition. — Rick Warren

We can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. — Franz Kafka

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. — Joni Eareckson Tada

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Observations always involve theory. — Edwin Powell Hubble

We don't own life, we live under a rental agreement which can be terminated at anytime without notice. — Will Leamon

Hawaii is a small, close community. — Jake Shimabukuro

happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game, — Viet Thanh Nguyen

They then interviewed us, asking about our love of Qingdao, how we met, why we came. Having learned quickly what they wanted to hear, we answered with the obligatory enthusiasm. Patrick, in especially fine form, waxed the kind of cheesy poetic that put yen-signs in the eyes of the producers. On a seaside boardwalk, for example, they asked him a simple question about the appeal of Qingdao to which he replied with a philosophical metaphor on what he lovingly dubbed, "The Qingdao Mist," a euphemism for the constant polluted haze that enveloped the city. He compared it to the dreamlike state of early love, when all landscapes are a pleasant blur of fuzzy details. I, trying not to laugh, vented my amusement in a wide, photographic smile. — Megan Rich

She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly. The — J.K. Rowling

I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young! — Maria Conchita Alonso