Joseph Fletcher Quotes

#1. The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

Robert J. Hutchinson

#2. If they aren't hating on you, then you're not doing anything right. If women aren't jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then you're a nerd, and I would never want to be that.

Heidi Montag

#3. What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Walter Pater

#4. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

#5. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.

Sameh Elsayed

#6. I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Maggie Siff

#7. Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

Aravind Adiga

#8. We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.

Ian McKellen

#9. I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.

Rick Riordan

#10. So we can do a better job of homeland security. I can do a better job of waging a smarter, more effective war on terror and guarantee that we will go after the terrorists. I will hunt them down, and we'll kill them, we'll capture them. We'll do whatever is necessary to be safe.

John F. Kerry

#11. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#12. Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.

Adele Rose

#13. I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.

Scott Rudin

#14. The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.

Joseph Fletcher

#15. Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Ronald Reagan

#16. I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Matthias Schoenaerts