Hedonistic Treadmill Quotes

#1. Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Pope Francis

#2. An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

John Junor

#3. On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

Simon Conway Morris

#4. I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Katharine Hepburn

#5. The act of thinking is man's primary act of choice.

Ayn Rand

#6. I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Caleb Carr

#7. What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.

Jon Kolko