Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Ludwig von Mises

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

Heather Graham

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

Jen Lancaster

Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem; it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.

J. D. Salinger

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

Bill Elliott

We didn't even know what safety was. We didn't know the meaning of the word.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Rachel Cusk

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

We had very satisfied exhibitors and that means this is a successful show!

We've made a big step, but I don't think this means we can relax our guard.

William Shakespeare

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Michael Moore

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

Maurice Maeterlinck

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

Baz Luhrmann

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

Baz Luhrmann

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Patrick Rothfuss

I know better than to read reviews but I do it anyway. Somebody described my pacing as 'glacial.' I wasn't thrilled, but I think they meant it in a not entirely unflattering way.

Peter Roskam

More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.

We do look at that, ... but it doesn't mean those qualifications or traits trump everything else.

Which means we can't do it, ... Something's got to be addressed.

John Bryant

We're by no means trying to stop that type of thing. We just don't have anything to work with.

Rick DiPietro

We have to put ourselves in a position where those two points mean something.

O. J. Simpson

We each offer a different quality to the group. Every member means something to the group. That's why they're here. They're a part of us.

We have some questions, but no negative comments, ... That doesn't mean we're not going to get any.

Bertrand Russell

Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

Bertrand Russell

In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details.... But in history the matter is far otherwise.... Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.

Bertrand Russell

... mathematical knowledge ... is, in fact, merely verbal knowledge. "3" means "2+1", and "4" means "3+1". Hence it follows (though the proof is long) that "4" means the same as "2+2". Thus mathematical knowledge ceases to be mysterious.

Bertrand Russell

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

Bertrand Russell

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

Bertrand Russell

Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.