“I believe that the only thing that will dispel the darkness is for the light to come on. And the lights are coming on. Here, there. People are eating more vegetables, living green, taking in and saving animals. All of that is the light coming on.” PeopleBelieveLightI BelieveAnimalDarknessEatingGreenSavingVegetablesSaving Animals Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I`m quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are dangerous, and that`s why we have to watch what we say. Words do matter.” PeopleMatterLightWatchesDangerousGreenIslamViolentRhetoricHatefulGreen LightsAnti Islam Author:Steve King
“I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.” PeopleTryingSpiritFunCausesPartyTroubleStreetsMovementArmsRight NowStressGreenAccomplishExpectedCorporateVotingStrongestCynicalGlobalizationMushroomsSeattleInsurrectionGreen Party Author:Jello Biafra
“One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.” PeopleWayWantShowsEasyStepsModernGreenGo Green Author:Graham Hill
“'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.” PeopleLittlesSelfMatterWaterToo MuchPlanetsPrideGreenTeethConservationOur PlanetAdorationCommendableSave Our PlanetToo Much Pride Author:Naveen Jain
“I think Berklee College of Music had the highest dropout rate of any college - or pretend college - in the United States. Because I think most people think they're going to be in Green Day or whatever, and you actually have to learn about music you don't care for, too. I mean, I cared for a great deal of music; it's just that I didn't want to submerge myself into the well of fusion jazz.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsMeanStatesCareUnitedDealsUnited StatesCollegeHighestGreenJazzRateDon't CareI CareFusionDropouts Author:Brendon Small
“I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.” PeopleYearsHappenedTenGreenCardsAllowingPermitGreen Card Author:Marco Rubio
“Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.” PeopleDifferentRaceClassForeverHarderGreenDifferent Races Author:Eddie Marsan
“That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really take to live sustainably. I think one of the most pernicious examples of magical environmental thinking is the anti-GMO movement.” PeopleThinkingSaidNamesExampleMovementProductsGreenEnvironmentalBrandsPerniciousGmosBrand Names Author:Annalee Newitz
“I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.” PeopleGivenShareNew YorkYouthKingsHatredGreenMy FavoriteNobleListsEstablishmentBellsFavorites ThingsEarnestnessTacosKnicksTaco BellGreenpeace Author:Simon Rich
“South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantShouldFirstsImportantFactsLightGuyStrongEconomyLandExampleInvolvedGreenSouthPunishmentSettingSettingsPlanesBordersSouth AfricaImprovingAngleDiplomaticGreen LightsSetting An ExampleStrong EconomyCameroon Author:Veronika Varekova
“I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.” PeopleWayMovementGreenI RealizedFriendlyUsersEmpoweredUser FriendlyGreen Movement Author:Elizabeth Rogers
“I don't like to leave what I'm going to eat in other people's hands, so I'll pack my own lunch. I chop up a salad with lots of greens - everything from spinach, baby spinach, arugula, cucumber, avocado, radish, cauliflower, and green olives to parsley and cilantro, all chopped really fine - with a piece of wild salmon. I even bring my own tea in a Thermos.” PeopleHandsMy OwnPiecesBabyFineGreenTeaLunchPacksSaladOlivesSalmonCucumbersSpinachAvocadosRadishesCauliflowerThermosParsleyArugula Author:Miranda Kerr
“This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton, and people in central Queensland. It will secure their jobs in the future, and that's what they're concerned about.” PeopleIfsWorldWantFactsLightJobsCompanyEconomicMinesConcernedGreenPracticalsSecureDiscussionAustraliaRegionsCoalQueenslandGreen Lights Author:George Brandis
“I know that I can forever walk the streets, drive the freeways, and be alive knowing that I created something with someone whom I love so very much that is such a powerful force. I would love for people to hear it the way I hear it [Forest Green].” PeopleKnowsWayI CanForceWalksPowerfulForeverKnowingAliveStreetsGreenForestsFreeways Author:Andy Kim
“This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.” PeopleWantBookShowsJesusChristMediaTvsJesus ChristGreenFilledAdmireComicContradictionComic BookTv ShowsArrowsVigilante Author:Paul Watson
“We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.” PeopleTryingLittlesFunAttentionGreenCharitySpreadVideo Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.” PeopleFeelsEnoughGreenFeel GoodPatrioticFlagsButtonsCollarsAmerican Flag Author:Frank Gehry
“You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c. 13,000 B.P. or approximately 13,000 Before the Present. Resettled.” Maybe we could say even, “Resettled by whites,” Or, “Resettled anyway, 1686.” It would have a different impact. And of course it would help explain why the town is called Greenfield, because it was a green field and the fields were left by Native people who had already been farming them.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidDifferentHelpingCoursesLeftFieldsTownsGreenImpactNativeFarmingBeing CoolMassachusettsGreen Fields Author:James W. Loewen
“I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating, but there was this one thing that seemed to be in a lot of soups and things there - I always called it pond scum. It looked exactly like the green stuff that floats on top of a pond. I would say, "Oh my God, this has pond scum in it!" I would eat it, to be polite, because we were usually with Japanese people and I didn't want to gag or spit it out or anything. And I still don't know what it was.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantStillsStuffHellOne ThingEatingGreenJapanPoliteSoupFloatsSpitPondsScumGags Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I mean I think people prepared me for like a lot of green screen [in Oz the Great]. I didn't have a lot of green screen. They build most sets. When this castle was tangible, Emerald City was tangible, the forest, the woods was tangible, the cemetery, everything was there.” PeopleThinkingMeanCitiesGreenPreparedWoodsScreensForestsCastlesTangibleCemeteryEmeraldsEmerald City Author:Mila Kunis
“To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.” PeopleCountryHardGreenOur CountryHatsBootsSleeves Author:Van Jones
“Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.” PeopleThinkingEconomyProductsGreenElitesMore MoneyNicheCleanersAffluentGreenerGreen Economy Author:Van Jones
“I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.” PeopleUsedPoorSolutionsGreenUsed To BePoor PeoplePromotionEntrepreneurial Author:Van Jones
“Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.” PeopleWantGivingRealJobsBreakTechnologyYouthColorGreenRateCongressAvailablePassingPassingsAttractiveIntroducingUrbanLegislationUnemploymentMarketplaceNew TechnologyUnemployment Rate Author:Van Jones
“I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsLooksPoliticalChancePartyRepublicanGreenDemocraticVotingRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesDemocratic PartyGreen Party Author:Viggo Mortensen
“The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green.” PeopleWayHas BeensJobsYoungMotivationPoorPayStreetsStudentsWallBenefitsLowsVoteGreenDebtCandidatesTemporaryInsecureIrresistibleCrooksBail Author:Jill Stein
“You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights.” PeopleHumansWellsWholeLawDealsRightsPlansMediaPolicyStudentsGreenInternationalHuman RightsAppearanceDebtAgendasForeign PolicyAbolishInternational LawNew Deal Author:Jill Stein
“I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensRunningPartySuccessfulGreenBallotsGreen Party Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulRememberParentInterestingMusic IsOkayGreenTeenagerWowIrelandUnderestimateRemember WhenIrish Music Author:Jim Gaffigan
“[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of very controversial cases. He has sued Sheriff Arpaio, the famous sheriff who keeps people in tents, gives them green bologna and the like. My other son Tom is with Williams & Connolly in Washington, where he does intellectual property defamation cases.” PeopleGivingDoeTwoBoysCasesSonIntellectualGreenPropertyDefenseCriminalsTomsControversialAttorneyPhoenixTentsIntellectual PropertySheriffsDefamationBolognaDefense AttorneysCriminal Defense Author:Nat Hentoff
“The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.” PeopleStillsBlackInterestPartyClassMiddleTruth IsVoteGreenArguingVotingMiddle ClassBlack PeopleSupporterGreen Party Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.” PeopleThinkingSaidProblemHouseLevelsHigherOffersSolutionsGreenClimateClimate ChangeProductionsSolveMindsetFuelEngineeringPollutionAgricultureFossilsParadigmFossil FuelAdmittingHigher LevelIndustrialization Author:Vandana Shiva
“The solution is this: There will be a state of Palestine in all of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Green Line, the border that existed before 1967, will come into being again. Jerusalem will be the shared capital - East Jerusalem will be the capital of Palestine, West Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel. All settlements must be evacuated. The security must be arranged for both people, and there must be a moral solution and a practical solution.” PeopleStatesLinesMoralSecuritySolutionsGreenWestIsraelEastPracticalsBordersTerritoryPalestineJerusalemSettlementGazaGaza Strip Author:Uri Avnery
“There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."” PeopleWantFeelsWellsKindTwoReasonTrumpInvolvedRepublicanComfortableGreenDemocratNotionCustomersLibertarianClassicEmployeeGet InvolvedShareholdersApolitical Author:Reid Hoffman
“We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.” PeopleWantKindStillsUseTechnologyProductsMarkInnovationGreenSellsCleanTemporaryIrrationalLicenseMonopolyCleanersInnovatorsGreenerHigh PricesLicensesGreen Technology Author:Thomas Pogge
“The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.” PeopleWould BeRunningLife IsSufferingCommunityActingCarGreenSpeedTragicBeneficialRailCluelessHigh SpeedTechnoRepairingHigh Speed Rail Author:James Howard Kunstler
“It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.” PeopleThinkingUseShowsHappensChristianWinningTermReligiousAirGreenGuiltRoundsClimate ChangeGuiltyGlobal WarmingCarbonCan't WinCarbon Dioxide Author:James Lovelock
“If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.” PeopleIfsSufferingBlackWhiteColorBlueGreenRedemption Author:Bob Marley
“As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.” PeoplePersonsAmericaGrowsGrowing UpLandGreenHistoricalFascinationDefaultPromised Land Author:Dylan Moran
“The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.” PeopleThinkingMeanUsedHairGreenMeaningless Author:Steven Morrissey
“Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.” PeopleWantCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesGreenWelcomeCardsOur CountryUnited States Of AmericaStaplesDiplomaGreen Card Author:Mitt Romney
“Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.” PeopleWorldWantRealGovernmentNationsEffectsAwarenessMovementWillingNeededPoliticianRootsVoteGreenGrassEmissionsConstituentsReal ChangeGreen Movement Author:Wilbur Smith
“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingCountrySkillsSixPercentDoctorsGreenCardsCanadaEmsEducateVisaGreen Card Author:Michael Bloomberg
“There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.” PeopleMenSexHealingMovementBabyGreenMotherhoodVegetarianParadigmSingle MotherhoodGreen Movement Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” PeopleThinkingChildrenTwoRealMotivationalEyeEarthSufferingBlackWaterWhiteWalksWonderAirMysterySkyBuddhismWalkingMindfulnessSelf ImprovementMiracleBlueGreenCloudsPeacefulCuriousBuddhistEngagedTrekkingStrollingBlue SkyZen BuddhismZen MasterThin AirPeace Is Every StepEarth And SkyGreen LeavesEyes Of A ChildBuddhist MonkWalking MeditationSky And CloudsWhite CloudsSpiritual VisionWalking On WaterClouds SkySky And Water Author:Nhat Hanh
“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!” PeopleStatesAmericaLyingLandMinesMountainRiversGreenPlantEndlessRuinsGangstersRacksStealth Book:Vintage Hughes Source: Vintage Hughes
“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.” PeopleKindEarthMouthsGreenStoresTolerateLibrarianPolitenessEccentricCrankGreen Earth Author:Garrison Keillor
“Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-' Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide.” PeopleWellsDreamEyeFacesBlackTreeBloodCryDiedGreenKillingIncrediblesWideHorribleFantasticDragonsPaleRobesWearing Black Book:Dragons of Winter Night Source: Dragons of Winter Night
“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.” PeopleIfsBelieveDifficultCompanyBoysMissingKingsEnglandGreenObviousStaringLionsMinorsElephantsRoyalPurpleRobesUnicornScarlet Book:The Graveyard Book Source: The Graveyard Book