Social Entropy Quotes & Sayings

The demonic love the taste of little girls. — Mercedes M. Yardley

The level of your reach will be the level of your income — Batya Maman - Sabag

If we assume, however, that the desire to achieve optimal experience is the foremost goal of every human being, the difficulties of interpretation raised by cultural relativism become less severe. Each social system can then be evaluated in terms of how much psychic entropy it causes, measuring that disorder not with reference to the ideal order of one or another belief system, but with reference to the goals of the members of that society. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. — Jean Rostand

I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only ... .Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks, — Adam Sandler

I'd much rather do one or two takes of one thing and then see how it goes. — Rider Strong

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone. — Lara Santoro

Single guys can easily simulate some of the joys of marriage simply by installing one of those GPS devices that use a woman's voice. — Barry Parham

If we start to look into the nature of the relationship between time and the dynamics of social exchange, we quickly discover that temporal considerations are equally important as spatial ones when examining the causes of disjunction that can separate familiarization and alienation. Synchronization, it seems, is often in thrall to serendipity - temporal disjunction, like entropy, is one of the irresistible forces of nature. — Izima Kaoru

Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. — Karl Rove

Now I'll just have to do without."
She raised her eyebrows. "I'm sorry?"
Then Maximus did something very strange: he went on one knee before her.
"This isn't right at all," he said, continuing to glare as if he found it all her fault.
She sat up. "What are you doing?"
"Artemis Greaves, will you do me the honor of - "
"Are you insane?" she demanded. "What of your father? Your conviction that you must marry for the dukedom?"
"My father is dead," he said softly. "And I've decided the dukedom can go hang."
"But - "
"Hush," he snapped. "I'm trying to propose to you properly even without my mother's necklace."
"But why?" she asked ...
"I know that this is rather disappointing," he said. "But I intend to make you respectable. — Elizabeth Hoyt

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms. — Judith Butler

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory. — B.W. Powe

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose. — Mary Antin

You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating. — Jack Canfield

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. — Andrew Jackson