Positronic Man Quotes & Sayings

Being abandoned is awful but saying 'don't leave me' is even worse. — Aya Sakyo

For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose effect is the emancipation of reflective consciousness from the repetitious constraints of the species. What this means especially is that man is given the possibility of going beyond himself and transforming. In other words, to ensure that each "super-nature" obtained is simply a step towards another "super-nature." Now this project is the equivalent of making man a kind of god - allowing him to participate in the Divine - a perspective the Bible depicts as an "abomination. — Alain De Benoist

If a robot can be manipulated into doing harm to a man, it means only that we must extend the powers of the positronic brain. One might say we ought to make the human better. That is impossible, so we will make the robot more foolproof. — Isaac Asimov

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible. — Zoran Drvenkar

All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!' — Caitlin Doughty

Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor. — Jonathan Lethem

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. — Jonah Goldberg

Someone has to make clear to us that homes are not meant to be lived in - but only to be moved out from. — Richard Rohr

I came to witness. I stay to fight. — Stephenie Meyer

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness. — Dejan Stojanovic

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu. — Jerry Saltz

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things. — Mona Sahlin

When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica) — Shannon A. Thompson

Why do we keep the Qur'an all the way up there, Madar-jan? It is so hard to reach it there! Because nothing is above the Qur'an. This is how we show our respect for the word of Allah. — Nadia Hashimi