Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it… — Gary Neville
I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You… — Gary Oldman
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent. — Robert Redford
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing… — Joe Rogan
We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential. — Nathan Meyer Rothschild
I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism. — Sherri Shepherd
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me. — Brooke Shields
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's… — James Surowiecki
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths,… — Lewis Thomas
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. — Alfred North Whitehead
I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time. — Carnie Wilson
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear… — Frans de Waal
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some… — Helen Fisher
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. — Chris Hardwick
Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and… — Arjun Rampal
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks… — Carl Schmitt
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most… — Hunter S. Thompson
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… — Clive Barker
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree… — Marshall McLuhan
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… — Aldo Leopold

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