Mechanism Quotes

When we cut ourselves we don't have to glue ourselves back together, instead we have a self-healing mechanism. Our blood hardens to form a protective seal for new skin to form underneath.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

I'm providing a new mechanism that may or may not be true, but it's very suggestive and deserves further scrutiny.

These drugs all work in one mechanism. If someone came out with a different type of erectile dysfunction drug there might be potential to expand the ED market, but these three drugs essentially do the same thing.

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

The Chinese censorship mechanism is not just looking for subversive elements. It is also looking at the ideas of 'moral rightness' in society. For example, there are controls on things like pornography, or other elements that the state deems as unpalatable for the population.

We expect to also establish some form of community solidarity mechanism in the case if there is a gas disruption. I don't mean in this particular case, but in general.

Government officials are still learning to trust the market mechanism. They are containing inflation, but you're building up more and more distortions in the economy.

They've spent the last five years trying to de-politicize the whole oil price setting mechanism, getting rid of the image of OPEC as a politically driven cartel, trying to portray themselves as central bankers and they are being asked to make a tough political choices now.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

You are the watcher; the mind is the watched. It is a beautiful mechanism, one of the most beautiful mechanisms that nature has given to you. So you can use it when needed for factual memory -- for phone numbers, for addresses, for names, for faces....It is a good tool, but that's all it is. It need not sit upon you continuously twenty-four hours a day. Even while you are sleeping, it is sitting on your chest torturing you, giving you nightmares. All kinds of relevant and irrelevant thoughts go on and on.

This is a legitimate right that China is entitled to, and we will resort to this mechanism when it is time to do so.

If you want to improve the intelligence-gathering mechanism and analysis, then you have to internationalize the effort.

There exists no mechanism for us to grant a waiver or permit or exemption or anything of the sort.

They don't bite. Their defense mechanism is they just play dead. They roll over on their back, throw out their tongue, and let off a horrible odor like they've been dead for a couple days.

We solved the riddle by finding this really ancient element conserved throughout evolution that acts as a sensing mechanism and tells these fungi when they've changed their environment.

Her coping mechanism with us was to not be here.

We have no idea what the mechanism is that makes this happen. If we ever do understand, it will bring a new understanding to the universe.

An eating disorder is a coping mechanism keeping you from more pain, but you have to ask yourself - is this in my best interest? And it's not. It only causes more pain and suffering.

It provides a mechanism whereby Revenue might learn about tax avoidance schemes quicker than they might otherwise.

If we build coal plants with no carbon dioxide capture mechanism, there is no way we can prevent massive global warming.

Our findings lead back to humans because they tell us about a very important mechanism for controlling autoimmunity. At the same time, they may help us understand why people develop autoimmune diseases.

In essence, priority national projects are the mechanism that will help us improve the living standards of every Russian citizen.