Borghildur Magnusdottir Quotes & Sayings

It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road ... A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is. — Peter Singer

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski. — Johnny Knoxville

Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world. — Marina Warner

I believe in spiritual technology. — Stephen Beck

A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think. — Vironika Tugaleva

Here was an expert who had spent years perfecting her craft, yet one of her best dishes was created under intense pressure, in a couple of hours. — Sendhil Mullainathan

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage. — Aeschylus

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have? — Eckhart Tolle

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into? — Simone De Beauvoir

You would be amazed if you could only see your true God-given potential. — Farshad Asl