Nonmeritocratic Quotes

#1. Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies.

Reid Hoffman

#2. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.

Aporva Kala

#3. Science is the struggle to avoid self-delusions or at least not to appear too delusional to others.

D.A. Blankinship

#4. America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.

Chuck Todd

#5. The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Joel Dicker

#6. Ansel Adams: "It is horrifying that we must fight our own government in order to save the environment.

Jo Marshall

#7. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Gary Zukav

#8. Charly Cruz asked him if he liked Spike Lee. Yes, said Fate, although he didn't really.
"He seems Mexican," said Charly Cruz.
"Maybe," said Fate. "That's an interesting way to look at it."
"And what about Woody Allen?"
"I like him," said Fate.
"He seems Mexican too ...

Roberto Bolano

#9. If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Chris Rock

#10. It looks like a prisoner of war camp to me." Fiona threw her rucksack down in disgust. "I was expecting a five-star hotel at least.

Cathy MacPhail

#11. We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

Manuel Valls

#12. You said that you would've taken back that day if you were given a chance. But I ask you why? All things happen for a reason, right? We don't understand the details of our lives because we're so busy living day to day. We need to take a few steps back and take the whole picture in.

Amy Astorga

#13. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust?

William Shakespeare

#14. Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Dick Clark

#15. Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like locusts, and others stand around and watch them do it.

Sylvain Reynard