A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism. — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace — Gillian Sorensen Copy Share Image
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism. — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are… — Harlan Mills Copy Share Image
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism. — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal… — John Ratey Copy Share Image
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either… — Lou Jiwei Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism. — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
