Pain Theories Quotes

#1. I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Stephen Hadley

#2. I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)

Peter Cook

#3. If the world is the product of nothing but natural forces and natural law, divine intervention is impossible.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#4. When a monkey loses a banana to a rival, he feels bad, but he doesn't expand the problem by thinking about it over and over. He looks for another banana. He ends up feeling rewarded rather than harmed. Humans use their extra neurons to construct theories about bananas and end up constructing pain.

Loretta Graziano Breuning

#5. It takes a great man to make a great listener

Arthur Helps

#6. He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

John Dryden

#7. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his 'coming of age'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Seneca The Younger

#9. There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Zadie Smith

#10. Get your runtcheeks down those stairs, right now

James Dashner

#11. And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy.

Zack Love

#12. I picture my pain separated into fragments. Instead of getting pierced with a giant knife that has the potential to kill, I'll just be stabbed occasionally with razor blades. So when he finally leaves me for good, and the last cut is inflicted, I'll be used to the pain.

Alexis Bass

#13. I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

Karl Popper

#14. They swore at airport management, at the TSA, at the airlines, at their useless phones, furious because fury was the last defense against understanding what the news stations were reporting.

Emily St. John Mandel