Diane Ackerman Famous Quotes
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
"Success produces success, just as money produces money."
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman Quotations
"If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."
Philip
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
US Marine Proverb
"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer."
George Pratt Shultz
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."
Anon
"Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do."
John Ernst Steinbeck
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Nick Richardson
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
I dwell in possibility...
Emily Dickinson
"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."
Saskya Pandita