Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fitzgerald

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Russell Banks

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

John Sladek

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Rudolf Hiferding

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

Rudolf Hiferding

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Daniel Goleman

I think that it's an extraordinary opportunity for science for the first time to learn about the positive potential of these traditions.

James Patterson

Lately, I find that I'm working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.

Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Saul Alinsky

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

Richard Rainwater

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Anil Agarwal

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Joseph Schumpeter

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily ù and perhaps most tellingly ù described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

George Gilder

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

Eric Hobsbawm

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

Ben Shapiro

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

Tom Pickard

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Jacques Chirac

This is necessary to speed up the return to calm,

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Justin Ohlemiller

That's why we have the perimeter set up to keep pedestrian traffic out of the area. It's obviously still necessary to protect the public's safety.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

Jeanette Winterson

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Jelly Roll Morton

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Elmore Lockley

Once again, these prices reflect what is going on in the marketplace -- not just here, but it's a trend nationwide.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.