Nesse's Quotes

#1. In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years. - Author: Jerry Jeff Walker

#2. The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness. - Author: Erich Fromm

#3. Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction - just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success. - Author: Randolph M. Nesse

#4. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove. - Author: Randolph M. Nesse

#5. If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. - Author: Randolph M. Nesse

#6. Today majesty is the length from where I stand to the summit of the mountain we are climbing. This mountain has majesty and hold its own authority above all others. - Author: Terry Tempest Williams

#7. There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano. - Author: Rebecca West

#8. Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. - Author: Elizabeth McCracken

#9. Institutions are becoming naked, and if you're going to be naked ... fitness is no longer optional. If you're going to be naked, you better get buff. - Author: Don Tapscott

#10. If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. - Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. The body is a bundle of careful compromises. - Author: Randolph M. Nesse