Trolley Problem Quotes & Sayings

Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There's no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should've done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn't work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG — Pablo

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience. — Iain Banks

You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day. — John C. Maxwell

I used to fear their deaths
the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!
until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end. — Caitlin Moran

The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the diagnoses were so unreliable, and the Rosenhan experiment confirmed it." Spitzer's — Jon Ronson

When people consider the trolley problem, here's what brain imaging reveals: In the footbridge scenario, areas involved in motor planning and emotion become active. In contrast, in the track-switch scenario, only lateral areas involved in rational thinking become active. People register emotionally when they have to push someone; when they only have to tip a lever, their brain behaves like Star Trek's Mr. Spock. — David Eagleman

Im still betting on you. - Cinna. — Suzanne Collins

A few minutes later, he heard, floating down the hallway outside, the steady creak of bedsprings, a metronomic nightmare in the darkness. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts. — Judith Orloff

Reason would confront falsehoods with "solid principles [to] serve as the foundation for diametrically opposed truths, — Anonymous

If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. — Barbara Coloroso

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. — Richard Schickel