The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants! — William Shirley Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the… — Edward Lampert Copy Share Image
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There's always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these… — John Moody Copy Share Image
A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything.… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
“Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides,… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
PayPal claims it can help merchants expand into international markets; its system makes it easier to do business with customers in multiple… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in… — William James Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
