Slovic Quotes

#1. Do people know which risks lead to many deaths and which risks lead to few?" the legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks. "They do not. In fact, they make huge blunders." Sunstein draws this observation from the work of Paul Slovic, author of The Perception of Risk.

Eula Biss

#2. He said they wanted a place where they could just sit and talk to each other all day long without the distraction of a university," said Slovic

Michael Lewis

#3. Christ on a crutch

J.R. Ward

#4. imagine there's no heaven..." he said. "Apparently someone is taking that personally.

E.J. Copperman

#5. I don't have casual sex," she said.

He almost smiled. It was merely an expression in those pale eyes, rather than an actual movement of his mouth. "My dear, I promise you there wouldn't be anything casual about it.

Linda Howard

#6. They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Jonathan Cainer

#7. People support a world they helped create.

Dale Carnegie

#8. I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

John Lennon

#9. I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

Anna Funder