Futuro Knee Quotes & Sayings

Religion is the one area of our discourse — Sam Harris

Colin sat back down to work at — John Green

To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves to perpetuate. It would be analogous to saying that a being with eyes does not have an interest in continuing to see or is not harmed by being made blind. The Jains of India expressed it well long ago: All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear. — Gary L. Francione

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect. — Mike Pence

Don't grieve for desires that are not fulfilled. Sometimes the things that don't happen keep disasters from happening too — Shashi

Text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. — Harper Lee

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done. — Rafe Martin

It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull. — Julia Sawalha

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves. — Henry David Thoreau

Chains of habit are too light to be felt, until they are too heavy to be broken — Anonymous

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life. — Frank Auerbach

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. — Abraham Cowley

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. — Jonathan Ive