Magdalenes Dream Quotes & Sayings

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person. — Billy Preston

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. — Frank Sinatra

Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice - all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow our species to think so highly of itself, can now confidently be said to have a firm genetic basis. That's the good news. The bad news is that, although these things are in some ways blessings for humanity as a whole, they didn't evolve for the "good of the species" and aren't reliably employed to that end. Quite the contrary: it is now clearer than ever how (and precisely why) the moral sentiments are used with brutal flexibility, switched on and off in keeping with self-interest; and how naturally oblivious we often are to this switching. In the new view, human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their constitutional ignorance of the misuse. The title of this book is not wholly without irony. — Robert Wright

Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance. — Wayne Dyer

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself. — Siri Hustvedt

Distinction doesn't consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those whose are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report — Thomas Hardy

Yippie ki-yay and all that shit"

- Desdemona Fox — Jonathan Maberry

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took. — Philip Jose Farmer

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road. — Coco Chanel

Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be. — Roberto Bolano

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.' — Mazie Hirono

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. — Svetlana Alliluyeva