Michael Sandel Quotes

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

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• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• I was not the popular kid in school.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • School
  • Popular
  • Kid

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Happiness
  • Secret
  • Admire

• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Flag
  • Sail

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• I will be very involved in Ukraine.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Will
  • Very
  • Involved

• My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Music
  • Politics

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Selling
  • Million

• You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Tired
  • Murder

• On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Hand

• I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Up
  • Real
  • Proud

• I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Friends
  • Car
  • Zoo

• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Sober

• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Shadow
  • Roles

• The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Change
  • Difficult

• I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Writer

• My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Said
  • Him

• On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • World
  • Day
  • Tree

• It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Memories
  • Directions
  • Whirlwind

• Everybody was slow today. We were waiting almost on every shot, especially on the last hole. And on the last putt, you want to take a little bit more time, make sure you give it your best effort on the last hole. So I'm sure we were a little slower today, but generally I'm not a slow player.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Effort
  • Everybody
  • Last

• Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Vision
  • Leader

• The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

  

  Michael Sandel
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  • Determine
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