Davidsdottir Open Quotes & Sayings

When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.. — Matthew Scully

Rabbi Loew of sixteenth-century Prague. He is supposed to have formed an artificial human being - a robot - out of clay, just as God had formed Adam out of clay. A clay object, however much it might resemble a human being, is "an unformed substance" (the Hebrew word for it is "golem"), since it lacks the attributes of life. Rabbi Loew, however, gave his golem the attributes of life by making use of the sacred name of God, and set the robot to work protecting the lives of Jews against their persecutors. — Isaac Asimov

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people. — Joe Baca

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything. — Julian Robertson

I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot. — Arca

He was overcome by a violent and fraternal love for this man from whom he had felt so distant, and he realized that by killing him he had consummated a union which bound them together forever. — Albert Camus

The Germans are prisoners of their past. — Daniel Barenboim

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly ... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties. — Norman Vincent Peale