Wangari Maathai Unbowed Quotes & Sayings

All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of rich world income. The effort required of the rich is indeed so slight that to do less is to announce brazenly to a large part of the world: 'You count for nothing.' We should not be surprised, then, if in later years the rich reap the whirlwind of that heartless response. — Jeffrey Sachs

I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat. — Charles Barkley

I'm destined to die a virgin.
Maybe i should have gone off with him. Not to get high, but to ... well ... not die a virgin. — Katie McGarry

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there! — Frederick Lenz

As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it. — Wangari Maathai

Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others. — Guillermo Del Toro

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness. — Kazuo Ishiguro

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live. — Joey Ramone

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution. — Max Planck

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can. — Karan Johar

There was a languid feel to the night air the following evening. The breeze was — Nicholas Sparks

Is there suffering on this new earth? On our earth we can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them. — Bob Dylan

Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge. — Haile Gerima