System Quotes

5175 quotes by 3168 authors

If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass… — Simon Pegg
It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West… — Rick Bass
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight… — Robert A. Heinlein
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a â€˜realâ€™ experience. — Maxwell Maltz
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
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. — Jim Butcher
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library… — Neal Shusterman
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
That was one of the bravest, stupidest things youâ€™ve ever done,â€ he said into my hair. â€œYou just scared ten years off my life.â€ I… — Jenna Black
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With… — Matt Taibbi
So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out â€“ out of earshot, out of the house â€“ even if this meant, really,… — Sarah Dessen
I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world… — Ned Vizzini
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: â€œI canâ€™t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne… — Emma Forrest
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from… — Michael Palin
But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules. — James Dashner
Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work! — Rachel Caine
I'm going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we're going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of… — Lynsay Sands
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is… — Marquis de Sade
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

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