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Simon Sinek: Dreams
‘Dr. King gave the “I have a dream” speech, not the “I have a plan” speech. It’s our dreams that change the course of history.’ —Simon Sinek.
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Germaine Greer: Libraries
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.” —Germaine Greer.
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Lady Gaga: Promoting insecurity
“I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.” —Lady Gaga.
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Dame Cicely Saunders: Because you are you
“You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” —Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of Hospice.
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Richard Fenigsen: Fundamental question
“The fundamental question about euthanasia: Whether it is a libertarian movement for human freedom and the right of choice, or an aggressive drive to exterminate the weak, the old, and the different, this question can now be answered. It is both.” —Richard Fenigsen, Dutch cardiologist.
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Pete Du Pont: Dreadful consequences
“From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.” —Pete Du Pont.
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Voltaire: Appreciation
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” —Voltaire.
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Richard Paul Evans: Suffocate the present
“Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It’s like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.” —Richard Paul Evans.
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Jack Kevorkian: Certain cases
“Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.” —Jack Kevorkian.
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Kenneth Stevens: Reversal of proper role
“Assisted suicide is a reversal of the proper role of a doctor as a healer, comforter and consoler to an improper role of the physician causing a patient’s death.” —Kenneth Stevens.
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Andrew Coyne: No argument even against death
“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.” —Andrew Coyne.
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Michael Bassey Johnson: Unwanted people
“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.” —Michael Bassey Johnson.
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Chadwick Boseman: Experience change
“People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.” —Chadwick Boseman.
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Saint Francis de Sales: Perfectly
“Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” —Saint Francis de Sales.
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Simon Sinek: Achievement and success
“Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of WHY we want it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Pope John Paul II: Height of arbitrariness and injustice
“The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the…
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Pearl S Buck: Long, smooth-sounding word
“Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.” —Pearl S. Buck.
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G K Chesterton: Courage to live
“Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.” —G.K. Chesterton.
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Diane Coleman: Not a benefit
“Assisted suicide is not a benefit, it’s a threat.” —Diane Coleman.
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Diane Coleman: Assisted suicide
“Assisted suicide will discriminate against the old, the ill and the disabled.” —Diane Coleman.
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Anthony Fisher: Palliative care
“Instead of employing euthanasia, we need to provide palliative care, showing the afflicted that they are loved and respected by our caring for them, not by saying, You would be better off dead.” —Anthony Fisher.
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Ramman Kenoun: Killing
“Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.” —Ramman Kenoun.
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Anthony Fisher: Morality of killing people
“It is a comfort to learn that there is still interest in the morality of killing people. For that is what euthanasia is – killing people. You can safely bet that every time euthanasia is successfully performed there is a corpse.” —Anthony Fisher.
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Stella Young: Murder
“The killing of a disabled person is not ‘compassionate’. It is not ‘euthanasia’. It is murder.” —Stella Young.
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Pope John Paul II: Legal toleration
“The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.” —Pope John Paul…
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Pope John Paul II: Suffering and desperate
“Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the quality of life itself.” —Pope John Paul II.
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Peter Singer: Slippery slope
“Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.” —Peter Singer.
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Dustin Hoffman: Legal in Hollywood
“Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn’t succeed immediately.” —Dustin Hoffman.
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Colette: Writers and authors
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” —Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954).
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Patricia Arquette: Pointing a weird gun
“For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.” —Patricia Arquette.
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Jason Bateman: Good work ethic
“In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you’re gonna impress the boss. You’re gonna get that promotion; you’re gonna get that raise. You’re gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you’re really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good…
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Kamala Harris: Make sure you’re not the last
“My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’” —Kamala Harris.
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Michel Ney: Prodigies of valour
“It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.” —Michel Ney.
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Sylvester Stallone: Rejection
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” —Sylvester Stallone.
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James McAvoy: Bad excuse
“Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.” —James McAvoy.
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Rita Ora: Long-distance relationships
“I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It’s an incredible achievement. I couldn’t do it.” —Rita Ora.
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Irina Shayk: Madagascar
“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet…
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Sam Newman: Bridge building
“If bridge building were like programming, halfway through we’d find out that the far bank was now 50 meters farther out, that it was actually mud rather than granite, and that rather than building a footbridge we were instead building a road bridge.” —Sam Newman, Building Microservices.
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Emily Blunt: Immediacy to this day and age
“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.” —Emily Blunt.
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Charles T Munger: Deserve what you want
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” —Charles T. Munger.
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Howard Schultz: Passionate commitment
“When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.” —Howard Schultz.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mediocre talent
“A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician (27 Jan 1756-1791).
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Steve Martin: Night
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” —Steve Martin.
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Amanda Seales: Flawless
“You’re flawless when you embrace the things about you that you don’t necessarily like, but you own them because they’re yours.” —Amanda Seales.
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Willie Brown: Truth within 24 hours
“In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.” —Willie Brown.
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Wilbur Ross: Mexico has better treaties
“Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the United States does.” —Wilbur Ross.
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Bradley Cooper: Magic has to happen
“For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.” —Bradley Cooper.
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Alan Alda: Challenging your own assumptions
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda.
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Simon Sinek: Not everyone will like us
“If we want to achieve anything in this world, we have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like us.” —Simon Sinek.
