Designed Quotes

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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director)… — James Patterson
There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their… — Steve Toltz
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,… — Michael Pollan
THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern.… — Janet Evanovich
Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases Iâ€™m… — Bret Easton Ellis
Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows. — Kathi Appelt
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and… — Douglas Adams
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of… — Phil McGraw
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no… — Ellen Hopkins
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an… — Daniel Dennett
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from… — Chetan Bhagat
Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late… — Jim Harrison
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores. — Steven Morrissey
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we… — W G Sebald
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to… — George Carlin

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