Quotes with prosperity-at-any-price

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 2216.

  • Edmund Burke Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
    Source: Cool Tombs (1918)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Caitlin Moran Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Asa Hutchinson Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Bergen Evans That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • George Bernard Shaw That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Hemingway That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Butch Trucks That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Carol Loomis The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Ben Bernanke The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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