Distanciadores Quotes

#1. I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can't be beat.

Paul Bloom

#2. The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. It was badly against Ronan's code to be impressed, much less show it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy is needed to move the vehicle itself, which typically weighs 20 times more than its passengers.

David Suzuki

#5. You will go most safely in the middle.

Ovid

#6. The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.

Lars Gustafsson

#7. Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Alan Cooper

#8. Come out, Yamiko,
come out...

Katlyn Charlesworth

#9. God's purpose in providence is not to make us comfortable, but to make us conformable,

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.

Aleksandar Hemon

#11. The seat of faith ... is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Carl Jung

#12. I wasn't totally immune to the charms of the opposite sex, but I wasn't one of those romantic, swoony girls who had pink fluffy daydreams about falling in love.

Gayle Forman

#13. I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

Allen Sapp