Wasnt Me Song Quotes & Sayings

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich ... — Michael Lewis

Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of pain and suffering to escape situations that threaten their lives and sensations of pleasure to pursue situations that enhance their lives. Just as humans will often endure excruciating pain in order to remain alive, animals will often not only endure but inflict on themselves excruciating pain - as when gnawing off a paw caught in a trap - in order to live. Sentience is what evolution has produced in order to ensure the survival of certain complex organisms. To claim that a being who has evolved to develop a consciousness of pain and pleasure has no interest in remaining alive is to say that conscious beings have no interest in remaining conscious, a most peculiar position to take. — Gary L. Francione

It's like that story of the father whose son breaks his leg. The villagers come up and say, 'Your son broke his leg, what bad luck.' but the father replies, 'Good luck, bad luck, who knows?' Then there's a war and all the young men in the village must fight. There is a terrible battle and most everyone is killed - except for the man's son who couldn't fight because he broke his leg. So the villagers come up to him and say, 'What good luck, your son didn't have to fight and now he is alive.' But the father replies, 'Good luck, bad luck, who knows? — Nic Sheff

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. — Rodney Brooks

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence. — David Amerland

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. — Honore De Balzac

I am not a natural dancer. — Ricki Lake

None of my problems come from the people I've killed. — Chris Kyle

It's better to show up than to give up. — Bernie Sanders