Atomistic Fallacy Quotes

#1. We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#2. Care and diligence bring luck.

Thomas Fuller

#3. Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Griffin Dunne

#4. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

Brian McGreevy

#5. This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

Steven Gerrard

#6. Women can do nothing that has permanence.

Selma Lagerlof

#7. The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

L. Ron Hubbard

#8. We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass.

Jonas Hallgrimsson

#9. Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

Rosario Ferre

#10. I had to work out that he was always going to break my heart as long as I was willing to let him in.

Beth Harbison

#11. Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

Paul Cezanne

#12. ...man is a part of nature and what he does is natural and can't be construed as tampering.

Robert Shea

#13. Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Marsilio Ficino

#14. The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Samuel Richardson

#15. Actors don't retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

David Niven

#16. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

Steven Wright