Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

Ludwig von Mises

Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Ludwig von Mises

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

Elton Brand

We wanted to go undefeated, but it's not realistic to win every game,

Robert Kiyosaki

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Marya Hornbacher

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Brian Tracy

When you are older, you realize that no one was every thinking about you at all.

First I thought it was stolen. Then I realized it was stolen, but it was just stolen by the tow truck company,

The reality of the situation is it's going to happen.

The reality is you're going to have some displacement.

Domhnall Gleeson

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

Frank Whittle

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

Daniel Tosh

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

Dana Snyder

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

Dana Spiotta

If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.

Dana Spiotta

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

Dana Spiotta

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts.

Dane Cook

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

Dale Spender

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

Dale Spender

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

Dale Spender

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Dalia Mogahed

[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.

Dallas Willard

Reality is what you can count on.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

Craig Biggio

He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

There's so many young women today who look so lost. And I feel like, of course they're lost. They have no one around them to give them real, authentic reflection.