John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
-
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
-
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
-
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
-
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
-
In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
-
There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
-
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
-
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
-
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
-
I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
-
I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
-
China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
-
Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.
-
Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
-
In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem....Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.
-
Ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιεί-ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλοςκαὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.
-
I didn’t really believe I had 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA.' These were just jokes.
-
I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.
-
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
-
Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.
-
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.
-
Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.
-
There were endless possibilities, not out of reach.
