Nirad Mehta Quotes

#1. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Joseph A. Tainter

#2. I thought of myself so little that I began to worry that I'd been the only thing keeping myself in existence ... and now that I wasn't the center of my attention I'd disappear, poof into thin air, and no one would ever know.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#3. Words are the only bread we can really share.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#4. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...

Sandhya Jane

#5. Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Edith Wharton

#6. The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.

F. LaGard Smith

#7. That's the best part about being a kid. Nothing seems impossible until someone bigger and older tells you it is. I grew up in a lovely little world where nothing was too far out of reach if I wanted to work for it. I think I still live in that world.

Lindsey Stirling

#8. Today is a black day. Tomorrow it may be white. You may look beautiful one day, and not the next. It is not only a matter of other people's perceptions, it's about our own perceptions. We constantly change. Every day our hair grows, our nails grow, we grow older. Everything ends.

Chloe Thurlow

#9. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

Peter Norvig

#10. To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for.

Ethan Hawke

#12. Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

Alex Linder