Sociotropic Quotes

#1. Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Bryan Caplan

#2. There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up;
The covers the abyss with a trance
So memory can step around, across, upon it.

Emily Dickinson

#3. I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

John Wilmot

#4. I don't want to be dead. I haven't been loved this way for long enough.

Jenny Downham

#5. My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Anne Lamott

#6. I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Kirstie Alley

#7. I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

Joe R. Lansdale

#8. By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

David Morse

#9. The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

Victoria Osteen

#10. The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself
who according to the Rabbins was also the first author
not being an original; the only original author being God.

Herman Melville

#11. Every human on this earth had secrets.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Pico Iyer

#13. No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.

Eleanor D. Alspaugh