Automatic Quotes

237 quotes by 210 authors

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. — Ayn Rand
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a… — Eliot Spitzer
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other… — Graham Chapman
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. — Douglas MacArthur
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. — John Brunner
We havenâ€™t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially… — Norman Mailer
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed… — Dave Eggers
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance… — Rudyard Kipling
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in… — Kurt Vonnegut
After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen sheâ€™d start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… — Malcolm Gladwell
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. — Graham Greene
How old are you?â€ she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. â€œSeventeen.â€ â€œAnd how long have you been seventeen?â€ I tried not to smile… — Stephenie Meyer
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Then Iâ€™d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after Iâ€™d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then Iâ€™d crawl back up to my room… — J D Salinger
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be… — Lynne Truss
he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? — Nora Roberts

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