Infinite Regression Quotes & Sayings

But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything. — Scott Westerfeld

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend. — Jim Sasser

The sky was so heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness in her neck and arms. As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform a series of receding Lucettes
telling them to pass it on and on in a trick-crystal regression
that what death amounted to was only a more complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude. — Vladimir Nabokov

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!) — Christopher Hitchens

My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It's how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference. — Nikki Haley

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression — Gilles Deleuze

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. — Haruki Murakami

Love your self's self where it lives. — Anne Sexton

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer. — Michael C. Hall

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

About this time two new propositions entered Fat's mind, due to this particular conversation. 1) Some of those in power are insane. 2) And they are right. — Anonymous

If I may say so, I added a few touches of my own: you may not have noticed, but some of the waves took the form of great white horses with shining white riders; and there were many rolling and grinding boulders. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I felt that Lionsgate really understood the material and that they would let us make a faithful adaptation; that they wouldn't soften it, they wouldn't age up the characters, to make them older so that it would be more palatable. I felt that the power of the book was in the youth of these protagonists and that you couldn't cheat on that in terms of their age in the story. Lionsgate was on board for, of course, the PG-13 version of the movie, not something full of blood and guts, but something more thematically driven. -Nina Jacobson, pg. 14 — Kate Egan

Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling. — Frederick Lenz

Infinite regression is limitless, without it we are nothing. — Solange Nicole

He wants my head on a platter." "You just make friends wherever you go, don't you?" "It's weird, right? — Darynda Jones

I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions. — Jorge Ramos

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide — Alan W. Watts

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. — Rene Redzepi

People enjoy doing what they do best. — Rafael K Nunes