Tatnall Hillman Quotes & Sayings

Mainstream economists habitually treat asset depletion as income, while ignoring the value of the assets themselves. If the owner of an old-growth forest cuts it and sells the timber, the market may record a drop in the land's monetary value, but otherwise the ecological damage done is regarded as an externality. Irreplaceable biological assets, in this case, have been liquidated; thus the benefit of these assets to future generations is denied. From an ecosystem point of view, an economy that does not heavily tax the extraction of non-renewable resources is like a jobless person rapidly spending an inheritance. — Anonymous

The recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore. — Estelle Ramey

Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives. — Liam Neeson

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it. — Jim Barksdale

We are living in a 'one morning' world; we get up one morning and many things have changed! Tomorrow morning, there will be another 'one morning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. — Rubem Alves

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. — Christopher Morley