Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Singer

Some of the things that I'm trying to do are to strengthen those other forces, and give them a better chance of having some influence.

Peter Singer

I might well have written a different book in some respects had I been writing it now. But I wouldn't really go back on things I had said.

Samuel Alexander

It is a different and independent thing, and the character of the mental act only determines how much of the object is apprehended and in what form.

Peter Singer

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Peter Singer

I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country.

Peter Singer

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Peter Singer

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Samuel Alexander

Thus we have to recognize that a thing as perceived contains besides sensory elements other elements present to the mind only in ideal form.

Johnny Damon

Spring training is too long anyway. I think this team, we're ready for the season to start right now, the position players anyway. It can be long and tedious, and this breaks it up.

Zig Serafin

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O. Winston

Republicans will say this economy is going really well, the last thing we need is a huge increase in taxes. Democrats will say we don't need to give these huge tax breaks to the rich. How that debate gets formed is key.

Jesse Benavidez

We needed breaks. That's part of the game. Once we got that that lead run in we got some more breaks after that and those extra runs are always nice.

Jay Graham

(Jerome) definitely played hard and wanted it more than we did. We gave up too many odd-man breaks and that's how they scored the winning goal. ... We also have to be better at finishing.

Ethan Roe

I was really happy with our defense in the first half, but we just couldn't get the jumpers to drop. We were 0-for-8 from the free throw line. Little things like that. I don't think we played that badly. A couple of breaks and it could have been a tied game. That's a credit to them. They had those runs. They got some fast breaks. That was not part of the game plan.

Troy Graefe

I was particularly pleased with our two starting sophomore. They played with courage. We didn't get the breaks tonight, but I thought those guys played hard and courageously throughout the game, as did all of our kids, but in particular those two.

Brent Barry

I think it touched every part of the rim - maybe the backboard, maybe the shot clock. I think there's still some chrome on the ball. ... We needed breaks like that.

Geno Auriemma

I think it takes some of the luster off the regular season championship. Now, it doesn't carry as much weight as it used to. Some years, there are breaks in the schedule. Some years are tougher than normal. It's not conducive to having a regular season champion.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Heidi Range

When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us.

Christie Brinkley

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

Bob Barnes

I knew instantly he was the right choice.

Jessica Lowndes

I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.

John Roberts

could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office.

Robert Creeley

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

David Hall

You do see things instantly as they change.

Sheila Garrard

I think they have to respond and I think they have to respond with cash.

Eric Lindros

I think so. We'll see how it responds (to Monday's practice), but right now I think so.

Mark Vitner

I think they would be responding to all the talk of outsourcing and all the talk in the headlines.

Woody Allen

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.

Jorge Ortiz

Bartlett just seemed to get stronger and stronger. We just couldn't respond to their speed that they had.

Brandon Roy

I don't think he was sure how we were going to respond to him. He was a little down. He was pretty upset he made that mistake.

Carlos Mesa

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Angelo Scola

more simply and efficiently respond to pastoral needs.

Jeff Crowe

I think they need to sort it out.

Ben Windsor

That's the whole thing, we work well together and we're all sort of into the same stuff.

Suzanne White

That's the sort of story we need to tell.

James Mercer

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.