The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.
BEN BERNANKENothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
More Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. Quotes
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Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue.
JOHN DALY -
Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA -
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
TIM FERRISS -
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
BEAR GRYLLS -
She pulled the thorn from her side and turned it into a rose.
RHIANNON JANAE -
I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
LANA DEL REY -
The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.
BOYD K. PACKER -
I love talking about Kennedy assassination…a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government…sorry, wrong meeting.
BILL HICKS -
Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.
COCO CHANEL -
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON -
I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINO -
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES -
The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust’s therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
Your tenderness is your true strength.
SAIF ALI MANGAN -
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WELLS -
Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.
JOHN IRVING -
Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector – finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.
MICHAEL HUDSON -
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Pretty soon you’re convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.
BILL LEE -
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
DENIS WAITLEY -
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
WILLIAM FEATHER -
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE -
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE -
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
AARON YOO