"In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now."

-- Richard John Neuhaus

#Moving Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Development Quotes

“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”
“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”
“Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.”

Source : "The Existence and Attributes of God".
“Excellence has no sex.”

Source : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
“I understand what the dynamic of the brand Ed Gordon has been all these years. I'm just trying to keep that as real and as honest as I can and I don't take it lightly.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.”
“Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”

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