Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would… — Ken Rosewall Copy Share Image
When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you.… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way.… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later… — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true… — Gertrude Diamant Copy Share Image
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away. — Kenneth Keating Copy Share Image
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
