Hedonic Treadmill Quotes

#1. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.

Dan Ariely

#2. 'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

Artie Lange

#3. I like music a lot.

Usain Bolt

#4. Sages of the past would say we are - all of us - just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

Susan Meissner

#5. I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Natalia Kills

#6. Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#7. A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Plato

#8. Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.

Andrew Murray

#9. I could have argued that her wanting to do something for me meant she was ultimately acting in her own interests, but it might provoke more of the 'don't fuck with me' behaviour.

Graeme Simsion

#10. I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

William Baldwin

#11. There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

Robert Burns

#12. The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.

Shane Claiborne

#13. I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn't have a clue.

Nikki Sanderson

#14. She considered the familiar conundrum inherent in complimenting a child for doing something well in the course of what ought not to have been done at all, and kept her peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#15. Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Martial

#16. Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada

Ted Nugent