The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The thing is I always believed in myself. I always believed that I was going to be the best in the world. — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
My self-belief, really is what kept me going, I always believed I could be a great champion, a world champion. — Ryan Garcia Copy Share Image
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Even when I started fighting small-time in '96, I never envisioned being on TV, being a world champion, making as much money… — Matt Hughes Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around… — Peter Sohn Copy Share Image
I've been all over the world. I've dealt with foreign countries. I've done very well, as an example, tremendously well dealing with… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. Facebook didn't exist; Twitter was… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other… — Lights Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I look at you looking at me, Now I know why the best things are free, How you've changed my world You'll… — Monica Denise Brown Copy Share Image
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist. — William Segal Copy Share Image
Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra. — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The laws of physics are not about to change. Set your agenda by what’s happening in the atmosphere, not by what is… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
My friends are my world! I have to say I have great wealth when I view my various wonderful relationships. — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. — Jef I. Richards Copy Share Image
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
When I think of myself, I don't think I'm one of the 'hottest chicks in the world.' I have all kinds of… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
“The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be some lives out there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means -… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really… — Brandon Andress Copy Share Image
In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We are just athletes, a little piece in the world, but sport is pretty important and sport has always been used for… — Iga Swiatek Copy Share Image
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will… — Carl Guardino Copy Share Image
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image