Sociologue Marocain Quotes

#1. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

Denis Dutton

#2. I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear or time, or whatever stops people from doing things that they want to do.

Zoey Deutch

#3. God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#4. As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.

Caroline Myss

#5. When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

Ted Dekker

#6. Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

William James

#7. The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

Dean Frazer

#8. Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. Habit is everything, even in love.

Luc De Clapiers

#10. Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Tim Ferriss

#11. Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Mo Yan

#13. Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Alec-Tweedie

#14. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

Kurt Vonnegut