Nimbyism Examples Quotes & Sayings

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part. — Richard Ford

Peacefulness should be the place we begin rather than the place we try to achieve. — Jill Bolte Taylor

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. — Sam Brownback

If you want to get better, you simply have to practice. There's no way around it. Even though Prasad, Sona, and Rex all had beneficial early experiences with music, each has had to spend thousands of hours in practice to acquire their musical prowess. Rex told me, "If people could've lived my life and all the hours I've spent practicing the tuba alone in some little room someplace, they probably wouldn't label me as being particularly talented."[6] — Jonathan Harnum

Altruism is the root of all Wickedness — Andrew Ryan

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. — Theodore Roosevelt

When I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out, — Suzanne Collins

We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly. — Sheldon Richman

By the late Stalin period, the right of complaint was so thoroughly a part of this political culture, in which civil law and litigation were frequently meaningless, that there were special mailboxes in the concentration camps of the Gulag labeled, "To the Supreme Soviet", "To the Council of Ministers", "To the Minister of Internal Affairs", and "To the Prosecutor General". — Lynne Viola

I love music. I love going out dancing. — Carson Kressley

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum. — Vera Farmiga

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it's done wonders for the advancement of computer technology. — Chuck Klosterman

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. — William Howard Taft

Inside my head, I shit my pants. — Max Allan Collins

In the beginning God did not make a church or cathedral, he made a family. In the beginning God did not appoint apostles, or prophets, or pastors etc, he appointed a husband and a wife in the covenant of marriage. In Genesis, the first mankind gathering was a wedding ceremony, and not a worship meeting. After God, the next thing that came was marriage. — Taka Sande