Right Now Quotes - Page 27

• In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.

  Jack Ma

  Passion, Memorable, Entrepreneur

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• When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

  Krysten Ritter

  Cousin, Home, Kids

  "Krysten Ritter: Master Pool Shark". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Awards, Careers

  "The 2009 MTV Movie Awards – The winners, the losers, the magic". uproxx.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

  Robin Williams

  Memorable, Airports, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

  Les Miles

  Hate, Team, Memorable

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• The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Time, Children, Drinking

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• I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing diapers-figure out how to make writing an integral part of your life. Publication is good, and gives you the courage to go on, but publication is not as important as the act of writing.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

  Louise Hay

  Attitude, Perfect, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 23, 2011

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• If something is worth doing right, it is worth doing right now.

  Wes Fesler

  Procrastination, Ifs, Doing Right

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• But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Mind, Twenties

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

  Ray Stubbs

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.

  Frank J. Prial

  Wine, Southern Italy, Tea

  "WINE TALK; Beaujolais Presents Its Nobler Profile" by Frank J. Prial, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2000.

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• The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

  Dave Pietramala

  Lacrosse, Way, Lasts

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• We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Years, Giving

  Speech at the First presidential debate, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

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• To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Cutting, President

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• It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

  Mike Thompson

  Believe, Silence, Merit

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• I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Real, Focus, Environmental

  Gregg Easterbrook (1995). “A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism”, Viking Press

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• Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

  Al Gore

  Civilization, Atmosphere, Global Warming

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• I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

  Method Man

  Home, Dope, House

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• Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

  Laurie Anderson

  Heaven, Religion, Gardening

  Song: Language Is a Virus

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• I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, Bird, Want

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• I find a lot of people say, “Oh organic and local’s expensive and I just don’t have time.” And I’m like, well how much TV do you watch? Where are your priorities right now? I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it’s common sense.

  Ellen Page

  People, Common Sense, Priorities

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now.

  Peter Ellyard

  Next, Generations, Development

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