All Quotes

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
‐‐ Sam Kean

The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.
‐‐ John Romero

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
‐‐ Moses Mendelssohn

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
‐‐ Aaron Allston

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
‐‐ Ronald Fisher

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.
‐‐ Susie Orbach

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
‐‐ Ada Lovelace

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
‐‐ Paul Signac

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.
‐‐ Johann Most

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
‐‐ F. W. de Klerk

The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the intransigence of the Afrikaner Nationalist Government, obsessed with improbable ideas of revolution.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.
‐‐ Joe Slovo

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 'anchor baby' thing needs to be fixed... Anchor babies are an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of non-Americans. It's wrong, and it's immoral.
‐‐ Russell Pearce

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.
‐‐ Chrysippus

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
‐‐ Ernest Thompson Seton

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
‐‐ David Antin

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
‐‐ Karen Duffy

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.
‐‐ Jay Parini

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
‐‐ George Lloyd

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.
‐‐ Colin Quinn

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
‐‐ Voltaire

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.
‐‐ Maria Montessori

The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
‐‐ Voltaire

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
‐‐ Fanny Crosby

The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
‐‐ Thomas Bernhard

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman