Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. – Tim Jackson
When it comes to female fan attention, I’m married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention – clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces. – Simon Bird
‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. – Willard Van Orman Quine
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference. – Tony Tan
Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products. – Tucker Max
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. – William Kingdon Clifford
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. – Stephen Covey
There’s a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative. – Terry Teachout
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions – the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. – Tom Paulin
There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a ‘social consciousness’ concept album disguised as a country record. – Sturgill Simpson
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks – even at 35,000 feet. – Sam Altman
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that’s in Russia and Poland. – Yuri Milner
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. – Simone Weil
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken. – Xavier Niel
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it. – Wole Soyinka
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. – Tibor Fischer
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings. – Sander Levin
I’m Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group. – Wes Studi
We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilitation, social rehab within families and of our Religious Rehabilitation Group. – Tony Tan
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. – Tom Stoppard