Bendiceme Bendiceme Quotes & Sayings

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat. — Sharon Gannon

If you can concentrate on listening to another person - without your own viewpoint getting in the way, without judging or discarding or thinking of a response - for the simple purpose of taking in someone else's reality, you start to understand her. — L. Alison Heller

On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times. — Soren Kierkegaard

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country? — Isaac Yeffet

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? — Henry Moore

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof. — Stephen King

What if you save for 40 years, putting off all kinds of opportunities, then get hit by a bus the day before retirement? Better to plan for the future while also living in the present. — Chris Guillebeau

It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is. — Terry Gilliam

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices. — Carly Fiorina

Wait
let me back in!
Wait
let me back out! — Lee Wardlaw

For every victory," Necthana whispered, her great dark eyes shining with a mother's tears, "there is a price. — Jacqueline Carey

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption. — Mario Monti