Parfit On Personal Identity Quotes & Sayings

There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart. — May Sarton

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. — Catullus

From this it may be seen at once what is the most important quality a nation must possess when its position in the world compels it to reckon with the waging of great wars. This quality is more than ever, in peace as well as in war, the proof of its fitness to survive. It is the capacity for the speedy development of a large programme. — Ernst Junger

Life is not about dwelling on the bad. — Lara Logan

You realize how selfish you were to wish that your wife survived you. It was your selfishness that made you deny that your wife had a serious illness. — Kyung-Sook Shin

If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man. — Jenny Downham

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain. — Louis Pasteur

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got? — Shannon Leto

We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties. — Barack Obama

History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick — Edward Hallett Carr

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. — Joseph Story

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern — Athol Dickson