Thomas Schelling Quotes

#1. But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Fareed Zakaria

#2. Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

Julius Genachowski

#3. There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction ... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.

Richard Schmid

#4. Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

Thomas C. Schelling

#5. I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Tobias Wolff

#6. All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.

Robert Zemeckis

#7. Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

Mary Ann Mobley

#9. 'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

Susan Blackmore

#10. I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

Thomas Schelling

#11. Principles are proven through performance.

Orrin Woodward

#12. So then, what do you believe in?
Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least
after death you're not nauseous.

Woody Allen

#13. I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up ...

Keith Green

#14. I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change.

Thomas Schelling

#15. I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

Thomas Schelling

#16. Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.

Seneca.

#17. When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

Thomas Schelling

#18. There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.

Thomas Schelling

#19. Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

Thomas Schelling

#20. For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed.

William Shakespeare

#21. President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

Mitt Romney