Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

Bhagavad Gita

The one who remains the same towards friend or foe, in honor or disgrace, in heat or cold, in pleasure or pain; who is free from attachment is dear to me.

Jade Jagger

My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'

Cheech Marin

Whether it's from the biggest, most powerful city, or from the dinkiest little podunk town, there is a certain attachment and connection, and yes, pride about where you came from.

Alan Paller

If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would start the cascade. News organizations do not have radical e-mail attachment limits (like a rule banning all picture attachments) because they get legitimate pictures.

Rob Halford

I'd like to feel that everyone would recognize that Judas Priest was the first true heavy metal band. I think there is a special attachment to Judas Priest and metal. We were the first band to really go out and claim ourselves to be a real metal band.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Edward Gibbon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

John Cridland

The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will.

Aeschylus

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Alan Alda

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.