Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

Jonathan Swift

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Katie Aselton

The thriller genre in general, it's total foreign ground for me.

Jo Coudert

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Jo Brand

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Jimmy Carter

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Jack Hanna

The L.A. Zoo is a respected institution, the general manager is highly thought of, the L.A. Zoo is one of the top zoos in the world,

W. S. Gilbert

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Novalis

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Emile M. Cioran

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Ellen G. White

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

All the pressures are related to development. More people need more water. They generate more water. They generate more storm water. All of those things can be managed. All of those problems have solutions, but some ways are better than others.

All the ideals which men generally think are realities, you have learned to see through; you have learned that they are your ideals.

And besides, Geneva was here. I love history.

Julian Castro

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Hesiod

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Henry Paulson

I didn't get the charm gene.

Helen Reddy

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Henry L. Stimson

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Giving is the business of the rich.