Reassertion Mean Quotes & Sayings

Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the "normal," particularly with "bell curve" methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life. — Seann William Scott

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money. — Gloria Steinem

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance. — Martin E. Marty

A dream is such a driving force, it drives you to your future, to your purpose, to your destiny so you can't afford to let go to your dream. — Euginia Herlihy

Sometimes you have to go above the law. — Fawn Hall

One afternoon Clairaut came over to me with a book in his hand: "Mademoiselle de Beauvoir," he began, in an inquisitorial tone, "what do you make of Brochard who is of the opinion that Aristotle's God would be able to experience sexual pleasure?" Herbaud cast him a disdainful look: "I should hope so, for his sake," he haughtily replied. — Simone De Beauvoir

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power. — Robert H. Jackson

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop ... — Bill Cosby

I want to give someone a job."
"Doing what?"
"That's the thing. I don't know. And actually, I want YOU to give someone a job."
His eyebrows rose. "You want me to give someone a job doing... you don't know what?"
"What's the point of having somebody who employs half the planet anyway if you can't say, 'Give this girl a job'? — J.D. Robb

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! — Daniel Dennett

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. — LeRoy Neiman