Gary North Quotes

There are still economic illiterates out there who think that a catastrophe is good for business. After all, it will lead to increased employment in the construction industry. But this analysis ignores the fact that nobody was ready to spend this kind of money voluntarily prior to the hurricane. There are winners, but there are far more losers.

Gary North

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• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Great
  • Father
  • Fear

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• Defending peace is the duty of all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Peace
  • Duty
  • Defending

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • She
  • Mother
  • Singing

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Together
  • Go

• If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • You
  • Yourself

• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Up

• Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • God
  • Air
  • Flame

• Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Young
  • Economic

• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

  

  Moshe Sharett
  • War
  • Chance
  • Independence

• There are still economic illiterates out there who think that a catastrophe is good for business. After all, it will lead to increased employment in the construction industry. But this analysis ignores the fact that nobody was ready to spend this kind of money voluntarily prior to the hurricane. There are winners, but there are far more losers.

  

  Gary North
  • Economic
  • Catastrophe
  • Illiterates