Padbury And Padbury Quotes & Sayings

The dualistic presuppositions of the revisionist position are fully on display in the frequent references by Macedo and others to sexual organs as "equipment." 60 Neither sperm nor eggs, neither penises nor vaginas, are properly discussed in ethical discourse in such terms. Nor are reproductive and other bodily organs "used" by persons considered as somehow standing over and apart from these and other aspects of their personal reality. In fact, where a person treats his body as mere equipment, a mere means to extrinsic ends, the existential sundering of the bodily and conscious dimensions of the self that he effects by his choices and actions brings with it a certain self-alienation, a damaging of the good of personal self-integration. — Jean Bethke Elshtain

The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, looking around to see if anybody notices it - and to make sure that somebody does. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore. — Nicola Sturgeon

White people in his experience were far more transparent. The most hateful rarely bothered to conceal their hostility, and when for some reason they did try to hide their feelings, they generally exhibited all the guile of five-year-olds, who cannot imagine that the world sees them other than as they wish to be seen. — Matt Ruff

What you do, who you're with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you. — Mike Rowe

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives? — Michael Gruber

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow. — Robert Henry Newell

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream? — Dana Gioia

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure. — Fran Drescher

I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment. — Steven Magee

It's easiest to give advice on trials you've stumbled through. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person. — John Cleese