Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Friedman

"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Milton Friedman

Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.

Mike Dirnt

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Mike Birbiglia

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

Mike Birbiglia

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

J. K. Rowling

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

J. K. Rowling

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

J. K. Rowling

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

H. L. Mencken

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

H. L. Mencken

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H. L. Mencken

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

J. Reuben Clark

Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for....When I find out these things, then I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is....Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord.

Grant Hill

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

George Herbert

Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]

Georg Buchner

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

Jessica Valenti

My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

Jessica Simpson

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

Jennifer Beals

The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online, in public and at home-viewing parties.

Jennie Finch

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

Jennifer Aniston

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

Jennifer Aniston

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

Jennifer Aniston

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Jennifer Aniston

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Jeanne Calment

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jean Guitton

When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?

Jean-Paul Marat

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

Jean Nouvel

I like English parks.

Glenn Reynolds

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

Glenn Reynolds

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

Gloria Estefan

A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

Gerald R. Ford

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.