Hormesis Effect Quotes

#1. I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.

Lionel Shriver

#2. A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

Diana Wynne Jones

#3. I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

Guy Clark

#4. Don't ask me how he got here, or what he really is. I think we've all learned over the years that the sooner we accept the simple explanation for the unexplained, the better chance we have of surviving a crisis.

Christopher Moore

#5. At least once a month, do something for someone who will never know who did them the friendly favor.

Robert Cheeke

#6. Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.

Kerry Greenwood

#7. Creed caught me. My legs wrapped around his hips and my mouth hit his hard. He dropped to a knee then he dropped me to my back. We fucked on the kitchen floor. And burned the bacon. *

Kristen Ashley

#8. Affluence means influence.

Jack London

#9. When the hysteric saw what the suffragists had done
the way that en masse they'd turned starvation onto its side
she must have been suprised. Her shock must have brought her close to speech.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded, the ability to entertain many ideas, sometimes contradictory ones, in one's mind at the same time.

Doris Lessing

#11. The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

Paul Newman