Planet Items Quotes & Sayings

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good. — John Howard Griffin

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy. — Harry Belafonte

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear. — Sharon Stone

I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness ... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collective consciousness has so much violence, fear, craving, and hatred in it, it can manifest in wars and bombs. The bombs are the product of our fear ... Removing the bombs is not enough. Even if we could transport all the bombs to a distant planet, we would still not be safe, because the roots of the wars and the bombs are still intact in our collective consciousness. Transforming the toxins in our collective consciousness is the true way to uproot war (72-73). — Thich Nhat Hanh

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly! — Isaiah Washington

Increasingly we live in a world filled with the equivalents of deadly garage-door openers, unnecessary items that offer us mild and insipid comfort at the price of a dangerous and uncomfortable planet, and at the price of any real relationship to the physical world. if you live in a suburban home and commute to a parking garage somewhere, that ten seconds of opening the garage door(manually) might be nearly the only rain you ever feel. — Bill McKibben

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men. — Ivo Andric

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. — Eric Liddell

The bad news (or good news, depending on your point of view) is that things have always been like this. — Thomas Piketty

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. — Lawrence Durrell

Gran, I'm only gonna ask this once. Please don't have sex talks with me, ok? Especially with Maggie in the room. Do you think we could do that? — Shelly Crane

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved
not everybody ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.' — George W. Bush