Polly Toynbee Quotes

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Money
  • Marketing
  • Decisions

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Service
  • Debt

• Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Money
  • Alone

• Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Money
  • Love

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Home
  • Shopping

• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Money
  • Song
  • Single

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Success
  • Team
  • Best

• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Year

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • American
  • Wall

• ‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Country
  • Money

• I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • World
  • Random

• I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Money

• I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

  

  Morris Gleitzman
  • Character
  • Book
  • Film

• Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Money
  • Progress