Tim Yeo quotes

“It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums”
-- Tim Yeo

Source : "Benn announces 'stronger' climate change bill" by Rosalind Ryan, Elizabeth Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

#Future Quotes #Vision Quotes #Development Quotes

“For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.”
-- Tim Yeo

Source : "Clarke bids for Tory leadership", www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2005.

#Party Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.”
-- Tim Yeo

#Years Quotes #Issues Quotes #Four Quotes

“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.”
-- Tim Yeo

#Wind Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Turbines Quotes

“I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.”
-- Tim Yeo

#Couple Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.”
-- Tim Yeo

Source : "Britain trails China in dash to low-carbon economy, warns Tim Yeo" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2010.

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”

“Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.”

Source : Song: Russians & Americans

“Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely”

Source : Alan AtKisson (2012). “The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World”, p.110, Earthscan

“What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.”

“Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

“Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.”

“But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.”

“Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.”

Source : "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

“It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.”

Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.

“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”