Ems Quotes - Page 17

Good to evil seems evil

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

You can't achieve anything entirely by yourself. There's a support system that is a basic requirement of human existence. To be happy and successful on earth, you just have to have people that you rely on.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.