Mechanism Quotes

366 Mechanism quotes by 316 unique authors

I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of… — E E Cummings
..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling… — Becca Fitzpatrick
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. — Pat Conroy
That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward… — Lauren Oliver
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates… — Stanislaw Lem
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. — Lauren Oliver
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions… — Thomas Merton
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I… — D. H. Lawrence
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. — Haruki Murakami
I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a… — David Levithan
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of… — Steven Levenkron
I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I… — Charles Bukowski
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called… — Dan Brown
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time… — Marc Maron
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we… — Dan Brown
Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it,… — Stanley Bing
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is… — Andrew Solomon
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the… — Mark Twain
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just… — Bernard Crick
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if… — Bruce Schneier
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and… — Victor J. Stenger
If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at… — Nirmala Srivastava
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they… — Stephen Jay Gould
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the universe. Would it… — Georges Cuvier
Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was… — Pippa Evans

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