Top 1200 Noise Pollution Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Our crumbling infrastructure disproportionately harms Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The negative health impacts arising from fossil fuel use, industrial pollution, and toxic materials in our homes and schools are literally making us sick.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.

If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

The best Startups don't create noise. They create a gravitational pull.

The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

L.A.'s a lot of noise and stuff. You always hear cars and stuff.

We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited.

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy, anger, crime, war, poverty, tremendous scarcity, and unnecessary human suffering. You have to look at the entire picture.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise.

Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.

I just was attracted to just wanting to make noise on different things.

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

I know how to make noise; I really do. I'm really good at it.

I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

I make the same noise after I eat too much as I do after I work out.

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.