Slaughtering Sheep Quotes

#1. There were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.

Lawrence Millman

#2. In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].

Kevin Rudd

#3. Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep ...

Ernest Gellner

#4. Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

Samuel Beckett

#6. OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

John Caudwell

#7. I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

#8. But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

Lactantius

#9. It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Nick Kroll