Christine Korsgaard Quotes

#1. It is our choices that define who we are, not our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

#2. I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we go and hopefully we don't make the same mistake next time ... I think if I said anything different to you, I'd be removed from reality.

Paul DePodesta

#3. If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having...a value conferring status.

Christine M. Korsgaard

#4. There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

Frederick Barthelme

#5. I just don't - Ronan. My ears are bleeding!
Ronan turned down the music.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

Sam Walton

#7. We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#9. she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

Hudson Taylor

#11. Thus we find that the unconditioned condition of the goodness of anything is rational nature...To play this role, however, rational nature must itself be something of unconditional value--and end in itself.

Christine M. Korsgaard

#12. [A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be understood as lawlike form, that is, as a requirement of universalizability.

Christine M. Korsgaard

#13. Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

Jean Louis