Peter Singer Quotes

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

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• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Conservative

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Career

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Lost

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Game
  • Master
  • Storytelling

• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Evil
  • Wave
  • Alike

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Build

• Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Church

• We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Age
  • Society
  • Generations

• The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Daughter

• Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Religion
  • Now
  • Islam

• Oh, sweet it is, where grass is deepAnd swifts are overhead,To lie and watch the clouds, and weepFor friends already dead.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Friends
  • Sweet
  • Clouds

• Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

  

  Peter Singer