Corsican Proverb Quotes

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

I’m angry with what’s happening to our country and angry with myself that I can’t do more.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

With many serious challenges facing our country - pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education - Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Complaining is the weapon of the weak.

I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand what’s happening to this country.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

What the hell, it doesn’t make any difference. Have a drink.