Top 100 Kass Quotes
#1. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003
Ray Kurzweil
#2. But she would have a life - a life filled with trees and flowers and sunsets and rainstorms, and best of all, Luke. She
Kass Morgan
#3. I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.
Deborah Kass
#4. They all had ash in their lungs and tears in their eyes. But Wells had blood on his hands.
Kass Morgan
#5. The 100 Tv-series" Clarke, who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things
Kass Morgan
#6. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.
Kass Morgan
#7. A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
Deborah Kass
#8. I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.
Sam Kass
#9. You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?
Kass Morgan
#10. Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
Leon Kass
#11. I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis'
Ras Kass
#12. Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin',
Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'.
Ras Kass
#13. Even with the crackle of the flames, the silence was unbearable. He wanted to ask her why she'd done it. Why she'd lied about Lilly. But whenever he tried to shape his thoughts into words, they died on his lips. Eventually,
Kass Morgan
#14. But Bellamy had been doing stupid things his whole life, and he had no intention of stopping now.
Kass Morgan
#15. I love you," he whispered, staring into eyes that were aglow with firelight, and something else.
"I love you too.
Kass Morgan
#16. My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.
Ras Kass
#17. Clarke grabbed his hand, and together, they started down the staircase into the darkness.
Kass Morgan
#18. Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Leon Kass
#19. That was the thing about heartache. You never could erase it. You carried it with you, always.
Kass Morgan
#20. The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
Leon Kass
#21. Even Confined children deserve a chane of life. That's why there's a retrial on their eighteenth birthday.
- The Chancellor
You know none of them will be pardoned. We can't afford the resources -
-Vice Chancellor RHodes
Kass Morgan
#22. It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Leon Kass
#23. An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Leon Kass
#24. I love you" he whispered in her ear. No matter how many times she heard them words, they never ceased to make her shiver.
Kass Morgan
#25. That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.
Kass Morgan
#26. We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
Leon Kass
#27. Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
Ras Kass
#28. Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
Leon Kass
#29. The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
Leon Kass
#30. Was that Clarke really in there somewhere? The Clarke who could look so gravely serious one moment and then burst into laughter the next? The girl who found everything on Earth miraculous, and kissed him as if he were the most incredible find of all?
Kass Morgan
#31. There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
Leon Kass
#32. They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.
Kass Morgan
#33. Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Leon Kass
#34. The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Leon Kass
#35. I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.
Carmen Kass
#36. Her mother's last words rang in her head. Louder than the screams and shouts from outside the dropship. Louder than all the alarms. Louder than the frantic thud of Glass's broken heart.
Kass Morgan
#37. Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass
#38. In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.
Leon R. Kass
#39. We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.
Carmen Kass
#40. I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.
Ras Kass
#41. Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass
#42. The realization came to her slowly, as if through a thick haze - as if the hands belonged to someone else, and the blood was part of a nightmare. But they were her hands, and the blood was real.
Kass Morgan
#43. Maybe here in the ruins of the old world, they could start something new.
Kass Morgan
#44. I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'
Carmen Kass
#45. It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Leon Kass
#46. I'll say that you were so beautiful, you made me do ridiculous, reckless things.
Kass Morgan
#47. With the fire crackling beside them, he placed his hand behind her head, and lowered her to the ground.
Kass Morgan
#48. It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
Leon Kass
#49. There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Leon Kass
#50. I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
Leon Kass
#51. Clarke stared at the crash scene, eyes straining in the dark, waiting for the inevitable moment when her training would kick in, when her instincts would anesthetize her panic. But hovering at the edge of the wide expanse of debris, absorbing the destruction, all she felt was horror. It
Kass Morgan
#52. The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Leon Kass
#53. She'd be more than happy. She'd be strong.
Kass Morgan
#54. As they helped Max clear the few dishes they used, he told them the plan for tomorrow. "It's our custom to bury our dead at sunrise," he said. "We believe that dawn is the time of renewal. Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after." "That's
Kass Morgan
#55. There was no drug strong enough to repair a broken heart.
Kass Morgan
#56. The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
Leon Kass
#57. Although the astronomical event of a lifetime was playing out right before his eyes, he was looking only at her.
Kass Morgan
#58. Growing up on the ship, none of them had ever known true darkness, and this way, their dead would always have some light shining down on them.
Kass Morgan
#59. Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange.
Kass Morgan
#60. These soliloquies explain our people's lack of stability
You keepin it real, but ain't got a clue what reality really be
See the diameter of your knowledge
Is the circumference of your activity
Ras Kass
#61. So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.
Ras Kass
#62. The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.
Sam Kass
#63. He'd never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.
Kass Morgan
#64. In fact, it had been years since he heard the saying spoken aloud, but that didn't mean he didn't think about it every day. There were some things you never forgot.
Kass Morgan
#65. Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass
#66. I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
Carmen Kass
#67. You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.
Kass Morgan
#68. Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
Carmen Kass
#69. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass
#70. He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he'd ever tried.
Kass Morgan
#71. What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
Leon Kass
#72. Bellamy brought his hands behind his head and tilted his face towards the sun, exhaling as the warmth seeped into his skin. It was almost as nice as being in bed with a girl. Maybe even better, because the sun would never ask him what he was thinking.
Kass Morgan
#73. Good people can make mistakes. It doesn't mean you stop caring about them. (Clarke)
Kass Morgan
#74. I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
Deborah Kass
#75. We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
Leon Kass
#76. Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.
Ras Kass
#77. You're so brave, so strong. I'm proud of you.
Kass Morgan
#78. I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
Carmen Kass
#79. One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
Leon Kass
#80. As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
Leon Kass
#81. You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A. is right now. I always thought when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Estonia. I think then I'd survive.
Carmen Kass
#82. We aren't born for ourselves alone. You have to take care of other people.
Kass Morgan
#83. I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's ...
Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.
Ras Kass
#84. Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.
Leon R. Kass
#85. The 100 tv series " Who we are and who we need to be survive are very different things
Kass Morgan
#86. I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Leon Kass
#87. Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
Deborah Kass
#88. In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
Leon Kass
#89. Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
Leon Kass
#90. If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Leon Kass
#91. Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
Leon Kass
#92. I figured everyone deserved to be able to fall asleep at night. To wake up without feeling that your nightmares had left scars inside your head.
Kass Morgan
#93. Finally, he set her down gently on the ground.
But he didn't loosen his hold. Instead, he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers.
Kass Morgan
#94. I am become death, destroyer of worlds
Kass Morgan
#95. Wells?" Someone was prodding his arm. "Hey, Wells?" Wells's eyes snapped open, draining the last droplets of a dream from his mind. He'd been floating down a canal in Venice. No, wait, he'd been riding a horse into battle alongside Napoleon. Kendall
Kass Morgan
#96. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass
#97. She would figure out how to get what she wanted, what she needed, even when her long lashes failed to convince, when her body was no longer young and beautiful. She'd be more than pretty, She'd be strong.
Kass Morgan
#98. My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
Leon Kass
#99. Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.
Kass Morgan
#100. I was broken, and you put me back together.
Kass Morgan
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