#sit

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#balanced #biological #climate #cycles #diversity

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#among #any #change #consensus #cost

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#been #brotherhood #call #committed #doctrine

And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. ↗

— Alastair Reid

#curiosity #death #dogs #dying #life

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#back #day #depressed #every #every day

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#being #bigger #bullied #cause #class

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#could #i #kid #kill #little

I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #interested #me #next #not interested

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capitalism #communism #exploits #just #man

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ↗