Statements
"In James Bond movies, evil-doers meet in exotic settings to plot the destruction of the planet, but the people here were plotting to save the planet."
--Ecology Summit, Necker Island 2008
"Nothing can be achieved if people don’t work together… and you can’t get people to work together if they cannot form strong relationships"
--Richard Stromback, at Davos 2009
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Famous quotes containing the word statements:
“Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women’s movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”
—Kimberly Crenshaw (b. 1959)
“There was books too.... One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The statements of science are hearsay, reports from a world outside the world we know. What the poet tells us has long been known to us all, and forgotten. His knowledge is of our world, the world we are both doomed and privileged to live in, and it is a knowledge of ourselves, of the human condition, the human predicament.”
—John Hall Wheelock (1886–1978)