Van Grieken Tom Quotes & Sayings

People see me going around constantly flipping off lights and think I'm OCD. No, I'm just turned off by lights that are turned on unnecessarily. It's not about wasted money, it's just about waste. Whenever I see someone throwing out food, I just picture all the energy that went into making that food being lost - the diesel in the farm equipment that picked it, the energy in the fertilizer and the whole fertilizer plant, the truck that brought it to the restaurant, the BTUs used to cook it, and the electricity for the heat lamp at the shitty restaurant. All gone because you couldn't finish your taco salad. — Adam Carolla

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married. — Priyanka Chopra

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. — Deepak Chopra

I kept one eye on the horizon, one eye on the other end of the lifeboat. — Yann Martel

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. — Matt Taibbi

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale. — Mario Cuomo

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. — I. F. Stone

He's so much more than I ever realized. He's the controlled business man, the playful bad-boy, and he's just so ... sweet. — Kristen Proby

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. Montgomery had gotten the flowers. Sometime yesterday he'd picked wild flowers like he used to when we'd visit cousins in the country. — Megan Shepherd

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds,
I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed. — Sean Price

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity. — Lysander Spooner