Betrekkelijke Quotes & Sayings

If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed to count only when they do not clash with human interests. If there is a clash - even a clash between a lifetime of suffering for a nonhuman animal and the gastronomic preference of a human being - the interests of the nonhuman are disregarded. The moral attitudes of the past are too deeply embedded in our thought and our practices to be upset by a mere change in our knowledge of ourselves and of other animals. — Peter Singer

Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. — Philip Yancey

They die of love - inside. After — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's not a blueprint for me to follow. — Adam Lambert

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more. — Michael Eric Dyson

It was involuntary. They sank my boat. — John F. Kennedy

I know I'm not the only one whose life is a conditional clause

hanging from something to do with spring and one tall room
and the tremble of my phone.

I'm not the only one that love makes feel like a dozen

flapping bedsheets being ripped to prayer flags by the wind. — Noah Warren

It's one of your most attractive qualities, you know, you never snore. Rare ad precious and - his voice dropped, though they were alone on the platform - sadly underrated in a bed partner — K.J. Charles

The human heart, you see, Mma Ramotswe, is pretty much the same wherever one goes. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard. — Nigel Godrich