Monotonic Preferences Quotes & Sayings

If you don't know which road to take in life: do what's loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That's the only path leading to light. If it's loving, it builds up, if not, it will only tear down. — Sereno Sky

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will. — Sylvia Earle

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle. — Michael D. Beil

Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff. — Margaret Cho

Don't confuse honours with achievement. — Zadie Smith

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market. — Michael Sandel

Smile and laugh ... Laugh and smile ... Laugh and smile every day — Heather Wolf

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own. — John Calvin

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. — Henry Miller

I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals. — Dick Dale

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites. — Ira Glass

She couldn't see the tree, but she knew it was there. That always gave her a small measure of comfort. — Sarah Addison Allen

How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don't 'control' something, doesn't mean it's going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don't understand why it's happening or where it's coming from. It's unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?
The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world. — Leigh Hershkovich

You must be always hungry and thirsty." The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. "Like me. — Frank Herbert