Sidgwick Ethics Quotes & Sayings

You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal. — Adriana Locke

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics. — Aamir Khan

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books. — Bill Hader

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. — Temple Grandin

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money. — Ahmed Chalabi

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife — Alanis Morissette

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.' — Bob Ross

My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's? — Jonathan Safran Foer

The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him. — G. E. M. Anscombe

The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously. — Virginia Woolf