Bernard Williams Quotes

Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

Bernard Williams

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Present

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• I believe we're the party of small business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Small

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, maybe it seems barren; maybe it feels as if there is no hope, no kindness, no reason for happiness. But deep within you, undeniably, something rumbles, cries out, wants to be born. Allow the joy to come forward. Allow the hope to exist.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Fear

• It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • True
  • Running

• 'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

  

  Matthew Scully
  • May
  • Taken
  • Moral

• As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • World
  • Work
  • Together

• America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • Moral