Smith Quotes

341 quotes by 289 authors

Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging… — Francois Quesnay
As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of… — Pierre Trudeau
Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of the… — Kenny Ausubel
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got… — Billie Holiday
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a huge fan of his… — Jesse McCartney
Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I… — Francesca Lia Block
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments… — Paul Ormerod
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand… — Kevin Myers
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent… — Jonah Goldberg
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint,… — Jerry Wexler
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. — Christian Nestell Bovee
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents,… — Aaron Levie
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long… — Madeleine Peyroux
There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I… — Chloe Sevigny
I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring. — Zoe Tapper
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the… — Marguerite Young
I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. — Sam Wyly

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