Micrometrics Quotes & Sayings

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on. — Dalai Lama

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal. — Bill Bryson

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them. — Richard M. Nixon

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together. — Bella Abzug

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food. — Mark Hoppus

So often, she had found herself transported by music. She would get lost, lose herself to the time and fullness of the tones, the way it conjured up air around her as she listened or as she played. But this, she thought, one did not get lost in this music.
One was delivered by it. — Kate Noble

There is an extraordinary irony in government efforts to promote more rational and sustainable forms of behaviour in individuals in economies which are dominated by the imperative to make profit through capital accumulation, and which are inevitably addicted to unsustainable growth. Too much of the practice literature ignores political economic matters mediating practices. As Tim Jackson and others have shown, the idea of a green capitalism, in which growth of output is 'de-coupled' from greenhouse gas emissions, is an impossible dream. I shall therefore argue that practice approaches need to consider political economic matters. — Elizabeth Shove

This is priceless. Big stud on campus couldn't make a girl come. You've officially given me enough ammo to rag on you for years."
Yup, I sure did. Nobody ever said I was smart. — Elle Kennedy

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Don't Run For Success, Practice Perfection. — Bharath Mamidoju

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war. — James Monroe