Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

The fact is that these bankers and traders are taking claims of wealth out of the system; they are not doing any productive work.

Michael Scott

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

Earl Browder

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Earl Browder

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

John Gates

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. This is this year, 2006.

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. Any time you can start off successfully, it helps you relax a little. You might not press as much.

Art Hogan

We have to get used to the fact that the emergency level of the fed funds rate is behind us, ... The sooner we become cognizant of the fact that the global economy won't be crushed and corporate earnings won't roll over, the sooner the market will fight its way to trend higher.

James Nesbitt

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

Mark Fields

We have to get a stronger message behind that.

Clint Hurdle

When he gets in a groove there's some pop behind it. He brings some noise.

Kazuo Kitagawa

We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.

Michael Clarke

We wanted to win. This game is behind us now. We have to just keep working hard so that we can stay in front.

Dayton Miller

We've still got some work to do. Everybody's ultimate goal is to win the national championship. Putting what is done behind us and striving for that ultimate goal is what we've got to do.

Ella R. Bloor

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

Ludwig von Mises

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Ayn Rand

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Edmund Phelps

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Muhammad Yunus

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Alain de Botton

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Mirwaiz Umar

We have no conditions from our side and they (New Delhi) have no conditions this time.

David Williams

The extreme conditions of a long underwater mission are similar to those of space, ... This mission presents aquanauts and physicians with an unprecedented opportunity to test state-of-the-art remote medical techniques in real-time and real-life situations. Someday, these techniques could be used in long-duration, manned space flights.

Dominic Bryant

The fact MEW did not fully correct the large Q2 increase supports our view that conditions in the housing market are improving and that this will, at some point, lead to increased household consumption.

Jim Thompson

We used to have to run somebody down there and do a manual test of the water. Now we can instantly see what the conditions are from the office while we're working on other things.

Peter Gatti

Ultimately a lot of this will be determined by what the market conditions are.

Steve Desimone

This was a team effort. These were definitely some of the harshest conditions (we faced this year).

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

Taro Saito

The possibility is high that an improvement in labor and wage conditions will continue to support consumer spending going forward.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Kathleen Sebelius

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Eric Long

When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Patty Schnyder

She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around.

Darcie Vincent

Megan was more patient in the second half. When she forces shots, it's not good for us. She's a great scorer but we need her to be patient.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Robert Mundell

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

David Leff

This property is a very high priority. We remain open to further discussions.

Kenneth Branagh

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

Sam Stovall

We might have a little further to go on the downside,

Edward Murphy

We won't go any further with the VA until this process comes to some sort of conclusion.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Lindsey Williams

We are holding out that something might develop. We are remaining hopeful that we can come up with a resolution prior to the 31st.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Charles Turner

We're holding our own. We just need to work on our defense.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Mike Richardson

We're holding her out until we feel her play would hold us out of playing anymore. She's participating in the warm-ups. She's dressing. She's available.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Brad Henry

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Condoleezza Rice

The United States does have, in fact, productive relations with Russia.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

Laura Wade

We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Brian Aldiss

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Demetri Martin

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.