Best air & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.”

People Problem Left Views Company Air Mines Industry Mountain Areas Point Of View Locals Streams Chemicals Toxic Coal Cousin Blast Cozy Toxic Chemicals Aquifers

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.”

Thinking War Problem Air Streets Meetings Climate Climate Change International Halls Activist

Author:Jeff Goodell

“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.”

Knows Way I Can Done Problem Form Know How Air Figures Painting Standards Matisse

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“My problem with L. A. was that I could see the air I was breathing, I don't particularly like crowds, and I was much better at snowboarding than I was at surfing.”

Problem Air Crowds Breathing Los Angeles Surfing Snowboarding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.”

Two Problem Seems Moving Fall Air Paper Blue Illness Showers Complaints Toilets Traveller Tissues Permaculture Affluent

Author:Bill Mollison

“The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.”

Stills Enough Problem Water Morning Sun Air Solutions Calm Work Out Strikes Insects Risen Crisps Sticky

Author:April Smith

“African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.”

World Kind May Matter Philosophy Whole Problem Earth Force Process Deals Air Tradition Painful Whole Life Instance Oneness Eastern Correspondence Eastern Philosophy

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.”

Trying Humans May Stills Problem Courses Human Beings Air Development Kissing Capture Obscure Dormant

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.”

Ifs Men Way Problem Hands Lying Found Water Deals Air Late Environmental Determined Too Late Pollution Biodiversity Air Pollution Environmental Problems

Author:Margaret Mead

“Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!”

Problem Turns Fire Air Feet Genius Shoes Flight Planes Bombs Jihad Exploding Sneakers Nike Flight Attendant

Author:David Letterman

“Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.”

People Has Beens Problem Cities Failing Air Wind Environmental Clouds Blow Fortunate Concentration Pollution Conservation Urgent Poisonous

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.”

Needs Giving Problem Wanted Water Air Machines Give Me Boat Faster Wheels Aviation Surround Sail Predictions Screws Lighters Rail Balloons Submarines Oar Propeller

Author:Jules Verne

“Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.”

Problem Humor Funny Air Shops Owners Sweat Conditioning Air Conditioning

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.”

People Humans Problem Light Action Realizing Sleep Results Quality Growing Air Serious Bird Patterns Damage Mercury Vapor Air Quality

Author:Will Young

“We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.”

Knows World Problem Used Purpose Air Travel Percent Eight Oil Fuel Broads Vehicle Funny Travel Highways Truck Ninety Air Travel Ninety Eight

Author:John Olver

“For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.”

Feels Problem Walks Air Activity Safety Block Devices Fearful Wire Eliminating Thin Air

Author:Philippe Petit

“All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.”

Use Problem Government Energy Air Economic Resources Clean Solve Dirty Fuel Entity Signals Fossils Marketplace Scarce Fossil Fuel Clean Energy Scarce Resources

Author:Jay Inslee

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Use Problem Kids I Believe Parent Morning Issues Pieces Doors Air Figures Skills Capable Tools Balls

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!”

Want Problem Cutting Air Source Originals Pollution Air Pollution

Author:Walt Kelly

“Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming, and that preventing carbon dioxide from entering the air is the only answer. Never mind that there is still an ongoing scientific debate about global warming itself, and that some respected climate scientists believe that methane is a better target, California legislators have locked their sites on carbon dioxide.”

“Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound.”

Ifs Reason Problem Government Might Fall Water Nice Air Economic Masters Incredibles Barriers Being Nice Falling Down Dissolving

Author:Robin Williams

“I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling.”

Mean Littles Moments Feelings Problem Remember Walks Clear Air Solutions Chaos Breathe Fresh Air

Author:Allison Holker

“People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.”

People Wells Has Beens Problem Home Today Natural Four Air Months Return Starting Illness Gas Neighborhood Los Angeles Leaks Natural Gas Respiratory Methane

Author:Ari Shapiro

“The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.”

Ifs Self Problem Guy Air Intention Drinking Arrogance Righteousness Sober Drank Self Righteousness Drinking Problem

Author:Bradford Cox

“We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.”

World Needs Trying Important Different Country Helping Problem Bigs Deals Five Air Ocean Areas Overcoming Around The World Boards Great Men Plastic Pollution Air Pollution

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“But, to the extent that I cannot solve MY problem with the same thinking I used when I created it, you're right. We need the fresh air that comes from others to see things in other ways.”

Thinking Way Needs Problem Used Air Solve Fresh Air Same Thinking

Author:Lewis Schiff

“My struggles have been around protecting our air quality, protecting people from mercury in fish. I was very involved in the effort to get the FDA to recognize that mercury in fish is a real health issue and the FDA, you know, needed to be on that. But they were very tight with the fishing industry and did not want the public to be aware in the same way that they later didn't want the public to be aware of the problems with Vioxx, and they sat on the studies for many years and allowed 140,000 people to develop heart disease.”

“In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains so high in some areas that helicopters don't even fly well at a certain altitude because the air becomes so thin. The country has a serious problem of illiteracy, especially after so many years of war and Taliban rule.”

Years Wells War Country Problem Certain Air Building Serious Mountain Areas South Extremes Desert Afghanistan Infrastructure Taliban Rebuilding Helicopters Terrain Illiteracy

Author:David Petraeus

“Fortunately, we know more about the problems that we have than in all preceding history. We know now the consequences of the things that we put into the air, into the water - of the way we treat life on Earth.”

Knows Way Problem Earth Water Air Consequence Treats

Author:Sylvia Earle

“You can see that there is an increase in the volume of freight that moves by air. And so, we have got to solve the problem by making sure that that is done properly.”

Done Problem Moving Air Increase Solve Volume

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the Airport. But, the growth in movement of goods by air means that cargo capacity needs to be improved. And I am quite certain that we will do it.”

Needs Mean Problem Certain Growth Air Movement Capacity International Goods Volume Airports Inefficiency Cargo Johannesburg

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Forget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.”

Problem Forget Rooms Brain Air Speech Surgery Just Saying Brain Surgery

Author:Suzy Becker

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