Goods Quotes

620 Goods quotes by 503 unique authors

Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a… — Sue Grafton
Peeta smiles and douses Haymitch's knife in white liquor from a bottle on the floor. He wipes the blade clean on his shirt tail and… — Suzanne Collins
The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people… — Steig Larsson
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or… — Caroline Myss
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm… — Harry S. Truman
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they… — George Orwell
I've never been in this part of Trenton before. I don't feel comfortable driving around buildings that haven't got gang slogans sprayed on them. Look… — Janet Evanovich
I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that… — Elisabeth Elliot
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. — Thomas Merton
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually… — Isaiah Berlin
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and… — Nhat Hanh
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in… — Eric Ambler
The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can… — Robert Anton Wilson
Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I… — Juliet Marillier
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time… — James Lee Burke
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. — John Dewey
Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and… — Michel de Montaigne
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination… — Grace Lee Boggs
People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced… — Andrew Curry
Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even… — Abraham Maslow

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