Universally Preferable Behavior Quotes

#1. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

James Joyce

#2. Quiz 1. Leeuwenhoek saw microorganisms in (a) polio sufferers (b) belly button fuzz (c) malaria victims (d) dental plaque

Anonymous

#3. There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

Julian Barnes

#4. I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious.

Lucy Hale

#5. Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Ron Paul

#6. Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.

Michael Dobbs

#7. I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

John Ruskin

#9. I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Leonard Slatkin

#10. Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Adrianne Palicki

#11. My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

Eli Roth

#12. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

Stefan Molyneux

#13. Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It's like network television. I'm your local cable access station.

Thomas Ligotti

#14. By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.

Yoshiyuki Tomino

#15. Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. - FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Dan Ariely