Moral Landscape Quotes

#1. The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Sam Harris

#2. Good fortune is created/written/made.

Erica Goros

#3. The consulships were not the only ornamental offices in Roman society: the Eternal City was filled with the comings and goings of impotent men - senators, magistrates, bustling administrators of all kinds - performing meaningless duties.

Thomas Cahill

#4. Your muscles can tense with hope.

Darin Strauss

#5. Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you're exhaling

Josh Stern

#6. In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

Warren Buffett

#7. [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

Elsa Maxwell

#8. People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Todd Rundgren

#9. Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

Rick Riordan

#10. It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

Stendhal

#11. For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

Robert Charles Wilson

#12. Yeah, you can ask that and I'll promise to do what I can do. But, Ace, since I was a kid, I had a temper. Tellin' you that don't mean I can't compromise, just means I am who I am, I know who I am, and you gotta take me as I am and learn to get over it.

Kristen Ashley

#13. No one should be offended - that's not my style.

Jesse Eisenberg

#14. Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Nick Tosches

#15. You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Rory Kennedy

#16. Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape of the world, but instead a group of Hebrew slaves, it would have seemed the ultimate absurdity.

Sheila Heti