Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has… — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
As in mysterious and transcendent union the Divine takes into itself the human in the person of Jesus, and eternity is blended… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive,… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing,… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We don't work for the government. We don't carry guns. We don't chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet.… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try… — Liza Richardson Copy Share Image
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
