Life Tastes Like Cardboard Quotes & Sayings

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world. — Jonathan Granoff

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self. — Barbara Kingsolver

These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power. — Martine Leavitt

The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows. — Ilona Andrews

We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive? — Janine Benyus

Somewhere there's a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that's meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things? — Rob Brezsny

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. — Helen Keller

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence. — Susan Ertz

I didn't want to die. I was just trying to feel something. — Emery Lord

Evil is whatever distracts. — Franz Kafka

I apologize again for another cliffhanger ending. — Jeff Wheeler

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. — Annie Proulx