The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all…It maybe humbling to admit there are only… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said,… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I'm a girl, so every day I have a different opinion about or a different feeling about something that inspires me, but… — April Rose Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped… — Gene Pitney Copy Share Image
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says… — Ofeibea Quist-Arcton Copy Share Image
I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel,… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who… — David Carson Copy Share Image
![“Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope…” quote by David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/david-mamet-1178_action_consider-for-all-the-gobbledegook-film-s_1913442.jpg)
