John Maynard Keynes Quotes

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

John Maynard Keynes

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• We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunity

• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• Good argument is intended to persuade another.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Argument
  • Another

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Like
  • Easy
  • Coaching

• I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Day

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Language
  • Thing

• The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Important
  • Control

• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Up
  • War
  • Problem

• I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Love

• I think he is as good as anyone.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Good
  • Think

• It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer
  • Professional
  • Habit

• The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • True
  • Courage

• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Example
  • Fact

• I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Fiction

• In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Dead
  • Season
  • Fortunes