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
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. — Robert Redford 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
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so… — Andy Dick 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
That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights.… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite 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
Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to… — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. — Peter Shumlin Copy Share Image
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
