Ems Quotes - Page 6

The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.

Often things are as bad as they seem.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

All things seem possible in May.

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.

History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas. It's vital to sustaining our health, safety, and the environments in which we live and work. Simply put, water is life.

If you ever find that you only have an hour to live .... spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.