Anderson Silva Quotes

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation.

We're talking about a chemical that's out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it's now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.

At nine, I started catching fish in Vancouver full of tumours from toxins.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Many a false step is made standing still.

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.