Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well. — Louisa May Alcott
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw… — Haruki Murakami
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed,… — Adam Smith
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. — Vandana Shiva
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't… — Annie Dillard
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the… — Louisa May Alcott
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since… — Ralph Nader
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to… — David Foster Wallace
Capital T-truth is about life before death. — David Foster Wallace
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them… — Suzanne Collins
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the… — Markus Zusak
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with… — David Foster Wallace
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically… — Robert A. Heinlein
If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but… — Muhammad Yunus
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with… — Michael Parenti
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. — Don DeLillo
Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune. — Honore de Balzac
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says,… — Patrick Ness

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