Rehder Balance Quotes & Sayings

The fact that we humans are indeed omnivorous is deeply inscribed in our bodies, which natural selection has equipped to handle a remarkably wide-ranging diet. — Michael Pollan

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit. — Rachel Field

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq

It's funny because my life is full of this:

you think you're escaping, until you run into yourself.

Twenty-three years later it turns out that the longest way round is the shortest way home,

and I've been running in circles since the get-go.

What a riot, huh? — Changdictator

Nobody believes in anything without an inner feeling that it can be realized. This is the only source of dreamlike powers — Peter Altenberg

Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship. — J. William Fulbright

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different. — Beryl Bainbridge

S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby.
"What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language.
"It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow. — John Flanagan

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away? — Harvey Pekar

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. — Bob Graham

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental. — Jerry Pournelle