Syncretic Quotes

#1. The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Dani Rodrik

#2. Atwater knew - as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never said aloud - that this was the single great informing conflict of the American psyche. The management of insignificance. It was the great syncretic bond of US monoculture.

David Foster Wallace

#3. It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

Peter Beard

#4. I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Michelle Bachelet

#5. This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

James McBride

#6. Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.

Richard Pryor

#7. I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

Anne Rice

#8. I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner.

Will Christopher Baer

#9. Don't you know
That lovers make the rains,
Call forth the sun,
Re-route hurricanes,
And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

James Kavanaugh

#10. Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

Jim Harrick

#11. Another husband could be found and with That husband another son. But I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.

Sophocles