Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I… — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When you copy content, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Repeat after me, and take heed: 'I am a good bot,… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
So You Want to Know All about her. Who she really is. (Was?) Why she swerved off the high road. Hard left… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“So we all ran around in mad, mindless, meaningless circles, as if we were in a cotton-candy eating contest where the grand… — Edward M. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
As for me, I delight in the every day Way Among mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves Here in the wilderness I am… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity.… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image