Mechanism Quotes

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Money is a mechanism for control.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.