Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life. — Richard Paul Evans
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are… — Henepola Gunaratana
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… — C.S. Lewis
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related… — Roland Barthes
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural.… — Timothy Keller
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you… — Jim Butcher
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee… — Milan Kundera
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his… — Milan Kundera
I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism… — Leonard Cohen
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory… — Rollo May
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence… — William Nicholson
I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out… — Nora Ephron
He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around,… — Rachel Caine
Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role… — Lauren Oliver
So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest… — Ann Aguirre
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. — Gene Wolfe
When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just… — Richard Dawkins
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no… — Ian Mcewan
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know… — Stephen King
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof
At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this… — Cassandra Clare

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