Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyler Cowen

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

Mariella Frostrup

I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

Nick Harkaway

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

Jill Malko

They have arguably the best recruiting class in the country. They're going to be a completely new team with different looks and different strengths. Hopefully coming off of that loss to them last year is motivating our team. There's no way we can take this team for granted.

Ron Darling

They don't have the starting pitching we did. They arguably have a better bullpen and their lineup is as good as any in baseball. On paper, they look wonderful. But all teams do.

Brad Jackson

This conference is arguably the best or one of the best in Division II.

Frank Maloney

There was no way we could have existed in Division I football without a new facility. We had arguably the worst stadium in the country. Any time a recruit came to town we never took him to the stadium ? which is fundamental because you always take a recruit to the stadium.

Barry Norton

It's an honor to be a part of arguably the best and biggest high school football event ever put together in the country. Nine of the teams either won state championships or sectional titles last year. There are going to be some great teams there.

Jerry Springer

It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ... It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.

Neel Mukherjee

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.

Zoe Kravitz

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

Patrick MacGill

Caste and estate seem to have been forgotten; all are engaged in a common business, full of similar risks, and rewarded by a similar wage.

John Marshall Harlan

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

Pankaj Mishra

I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

F. Sionil Jose

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

Peter Jason

It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.

Gloria Steinem

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Atharva Veda

There is only one Caste; the Caste of Humanity.There is only one Language; the Language of the Heart.

Alan Chadwick

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Alan Cooper

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Chinua Achebe

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

Edith Schaeffer

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

Eartha Kitt

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

David Hume

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Richard Boulderstone

We acknowledge the considerable work that has to be undertaken by publishers to make the transition to a new structure for their electronic journal content. However, by supporting a common structure for e-journal content we have established a shared international context in which such migration can now proceed.

John Segrich

Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Lee Raymond

With the improvement in oil prices, second quarter net income increased 18 percent from the first quarter of 1999, in contrast to the seasonal earnings decline that we usually see from the first to the second quarter of each year,

Grant Dalton

the most extreme leg in terms of its contrast in weather.

Alain Resnais

They got the idea. In life, we rarely remember a whole song; in Potter, there's often a violent contrast between the situation and the song.

Pierre Ellis

The third-quarter Employment Cost Index is ... reassuring in the sense that labor costs as measured on this index remain very contained, in contrast to some other labor cost indexes.

Karl Hobbs

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

Shyla Nelson

This contrast between this beautifully written, elegantly constructed music and this outrageous storyline is part of what drew me in.

Matthias Schoenaerts

Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.

Greg Perry

to protect their industry, in contrast to the efforts of health ministers, who struggle to keep pharmaceutical expenditures to sustainable levels.

Robert Bunyi

We know that income disparities are pretty wide, rural households still have to eke out a living and there is not enough trickle-down from prosperous areas. The key is improving agriculture -- there have been draughts and lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for people to market their crops. But I think in many respects Africans are eternal optimists -- AIDS, hunger and lack of long-term opportunities seem to stand in contrast to the poll.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

Carl Tannenbaum

It's a big surprise and another puzzle for economists to try to figure out.

Edmund Phelps

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

Marshall Vest

The world economy has become much more open and global. Greenspan was in favor of all that, as most economists are.

Drew Matus

The risk is that there's something that economists aren't picking up. As oil prices go higher, firms see margins compress and that could put a squeeze on hiring.

Ronald Coase

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

David Resler

Uncertainty about the pricing environment will keep inventory investment more disappointing than some other economists expect.

James Heckman

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

Chris Evert

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Michel Faber

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

Mahmoud Abbas

spending time and energies to move the process forward.

Charles Eckstine

I think if our police officers put their energies in the borough solely, and we have one officer per patrol car, we'd have sufficient police services for the borough. I don't see other communities having two police officers riding around in the same patrol car.

Doris Goodwin

His whole philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past

Alfred McEwen

It could have implications for moons outside the solar system. It gives us lots to ponder in terms of physical science as far as the energies it takes to produce these (plumes).

Willie Nelson

I think it's time we start looking seriously at alternative energies so we don't have to go around the world looking for oil,

Lori Garver

The past seven-plus years have seen just an incredible rejuvenation of energies at NASA leading to more missions within a shorter period of time.

Mike Taylor

Our sense is that the rules will be enforced better than they have ever been in a number of years.

Griffin Bell

the written rules were often ignored, never enforced and all the participants knew it.

Felipe Roque

Never before, as in the last 18 months, was the blockade enforced with so much viciousness and brutality,

Grant Hackett

I would have been disqualified several times before if it had been enforced like this, definitely.

Dick Cheney

He's signed up to it. ... It's not been enforced or complied with.

David Bain

I think it would help if we enforced the rules we've got.

Matt Resch

Having the law enforced will have much more impact than the resolution.

Bobby Bowden

Yeah. I could hardly lose in that situation because Joe is showing the world it can be done. When everybody had given up on Joe, Joe showed it could be done. One play and he doesn't lose a game. I want to do the same thing. He enforced my thinking we can do it.

Jeffrey Sweetin

That is one of the most heavily enforced highways in the world.

Juvenal

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

John Fusco

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

Mike Quigley

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Hugh Johnson

When all of the markets around the globe simultaneously go down, that's the message. That's what you have to worry about.

Scott Walker

If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe.

Nas

Read more learn more, change the globe

Richard Flanagan

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Matthew Storin

Obviously, each of them violates the sacred trust that the Globe has with its readers.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Monte Solberg

This is where Liberal pork comes to rest.

Rudy Giuliani

a vote for the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

Gillian Armstrong

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

Wendy Kaminer

A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

M. Wolfe

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

Jose Lagos

Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.

Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

Steve Reynolds

We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,

Robert Brown

When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.

Chanel Iman

I'm really into natural and organic products.

John Lang

Tony is a natural leader, not only on the field, but off it. He'll have everyone's support.

Willa Cather

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Byron Katie

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

Bill Goldberg

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

Bob Barker

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Alan Watts

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Chief Joseph

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Michel Onfray

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Kurt Vonnegut

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Nick Bell

The more time dealers can spend with customers, the more they can sell.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Howard Silverblatt

They're starting to spend some of the money,

Jay Bryson

It's not just China, it's not just oil. We spend more than we produce, end of story.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Paul DePodesta

I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Ronnie Arnold

That's strictly the principal's decision. He doesn't have to give a reason.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Martha Beck

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Eric Kripke

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.