Climate Quotes

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

Hell, Heaven, Company

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain

Weather, Expect

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Bill Gates

Change, Problem, Needs

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
Hillary Clinton

Change, Trying, Challenge

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Freedom, Knowing

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck

Good, Hell, Weather

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.
P. J. O'Rourke

Change, Problems, Whatever

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore

Change, Experience, Future

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield

Health, Simple, Exercise

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison

Change, Nature, Men

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?
Rick Perry

Rainy, Last, While

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton

Change, Men, Home

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
Cornel West

Opinion, Rather, Shapes

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan

Marriage, Happy, Husband

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov

Political, Country, Learned

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Respect, Society, May

We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
Simon Mainwaring

Together, Control, Working

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
Rick Perry

Courage, Country, Working

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
Sienna Miller

Fun, Film, State

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Daily, Enjoyment, Air

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry

May, Weather, Achieve

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne Westwood

Change, Earth, Run

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.
David Suzuki

Live, Important, Sometimes

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
Ron Fournier

Change, Crisis, Humanity

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
Cate Blanchett

Change, Future, Face

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
David Attenborough

Change, Question, Point

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
David Attenborough

Hope, Give, Reason

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
David Attenborough

Change, Home, Food

Manners are love in a cool climate.
Quentin Crisp

Love, Cool, Manners

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
Peter Singer

Interests, Planet, Disaster

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