Atomistic Quotes

#1. Strategic partnership is the truest foundation for marriage and intimacy. Strategic thinking does not assume atomistic individuals; indeed, Austen argues that strategic thinking in concert forms the basis of the closest human relationships.

Michael Suk-Young Chwe

#2. Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

George Will

#3. Alphabets therefore encourage an atomistic conception of meaning and, by extension, of the universe

Charles Eisenstein

#4. Societies accomplished important goals that still elude politicians, specialists in public policy, social reformers, and philanthropists. They successfully created vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor that are now almost entirely absent in many atomistic inner cities.

David T. Beito

#5. 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

#6. In spite of the enormous complexity of macroscopic bodies when viewed from an atomistic viewpoint, one knows from everyday experience as well as from precision experiments that macroscopic bodies obey quite definite laws.

Franz Mandl

#7. The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Jaggi Vasudev

#8. When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.

Roger Goodell

#9. Now I know just what heaven feels like...

A.J. Linn

#10. How did the Farm Bill achieve overwhelming support from Congress in the face of such widespread calls for reform?...In exchange for leaving support for the large commodity crop farmers in place, House and Senate negotiators packaged support for nearly everyone else into the bill.

Pietra Rivoli

#11. I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

Jimmy Buffett

#12. Blade shot her a quick glance, his eyes skipping off her nudity, his face heating again. He picked up the dress. "Don't you want to put this on?"

She shot him a disbelieving look. "I'm in the middle of giving birth. I'm not going to put on a damned dress!

T.C. Southwell

#13. Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.

Evan Esar

#14. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare

#15. I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

Don Winslow

#16. Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

Bruce Weber

#17. The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Juvenal

#18. Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature.

Lillian H. Smith

#19. My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.

Geena Davis

#20. It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

John Shelby Spong

#21. I miss you so much. Maybe if I say your name over and over again, it will eventually feel wrong to me. Like a word you write too many times suddenly doesn't look right anymore. I will try that.

Kate McGahan