#vin

I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. ↗

— David Attenborough

#car #conscience #could #driving #environmentalist

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#africa #clearly #due #future #happening

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#blessedness #consists #desires #having #only

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#earn #ever #first #living #spouse

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#after #another #became #challenge #diaries

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ↗

— Aristotle

#deserving #dignity #does #honors #possessing

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#age #become #best #date #examples

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#disapprove #having #how #i #important