Programmed Quotes

150 quotes by 134 authors

We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's… — Queen Rania of Jordan
You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet.… — Joe Rogan
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power… — Richard Rohr
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But… — Richard Rorty
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or… — David A. Bednar
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the… — Douglas Rushkoff
We will destroy you,â€ the Flyboys droned. â€œYou have no escape.â€ That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these â€™droids to… — James Patterson
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. — Michael Ignatieff
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we… — Neil Strauss
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at… — Chuck Palahniuk
I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into… — Sarah Dessen
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to… — Scott Westerfeld
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are… — Chetan Bhagat
We are survival machines â€“ robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me… — Richard Dawkins
And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot… — Alexandra Potter
The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to… — Annie Dillard
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed… — John Bradshaw
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads… — James Patterson
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

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