Jeph Jacques

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 9 of 9 total There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content Comic, 08-21-05You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05 The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #478, 10-27-05'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #678, 08-02-06 What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people? Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010 Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07 That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07 A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

People protect what they love.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

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