Jeffrey Pierce Quotes

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

As women we try so hard to be perfect at everything, all the time. It's impossible.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The world's become a little too mean.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.