Throughputs Quotes & Sayings

People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment. — Donella H. Meadows

An 'Islamic economy' or 'Islamic finance' doesn't mean anything to me. But I do think that in the multi-polar world, it is time to find new partners, to find a new balance in the economic order. And this could help you to find an alternative way forward. — Tariq Ramadan

Mark's ideas tended to the bland, and there was no point in asking Miles, whose embittered suggestions all ran to things like Vomit Vanilla and Cockroach Crunch. Vorkosigan — Lois McMaster Bujold

But as regards love, I am sure the Bible is right: the opposite of love is not hate but fear. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. — William Sloane Coffin

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ... — Alain De Botton

If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving. — Frederick Lenz

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain. — Sophocles

Ask, and it shall be bgiven you; cseek, and ye shall find; dknock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that aseeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask abread, will he give him a stone? 10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? — Anonymous