Nannoplankton Quotes & Sayings

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. — Audrey Niffenegger

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives . — Bill Ford

When you consider that our technology has advanced from the first telephones to smart phones in roughly a century, it's easy to understand why it seems like tomorrow is arriving faster than it ever did. — Annalee Newitz

My name's Mapo," the boy says. "Mesa Jar Jar. — Chuck Wendig

Failure will never feel good, but be unafraid of it and you will eventually achieve anything you work your ass for. — Ben Tolosa

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. — James Reston

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and
tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society. — Peter Drucker

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think I kill for fun."
"Don't you?"
"Well, not just for fun. — Karen Chance

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. — Carla Bley

We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other. — C.S. Lewis

Let's be honest. The activities of our economic and social system are killing the planet. Even if we confine ourselves merely to humans, these activities are causing an unprecedented privation, as hundreds of millions of people-and today more than yesterday, with probably more tomorrow-go their entire lives with never enough to eat. Yet curiously, none of this seems to stir us to significant action. And when someone does too stridently point out these obvious injustices, the response by the mass of the people seems so often to be ... a figurative if not physical blow to the gut, leading inevitably to a destruction of our common future. Witness the enthusiasm with which those native nations that resisted their conquest by our culture have been subdued, and the eagerness with which this same end is today brought to those-native or not-who continue to resist too strongly. How does this come to happen, in both personal and social ways? — Derrick Jensen