E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

E. F. Schumacher

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• If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Work
  • Like
  • Baseball

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Picture

• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Tests

• Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • World
  • Writing
  • Live

• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• Power tends to get confused with repression.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Power
  • Confused
  • Repression

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

  

  Hal Linden
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • High
  • Paris

• A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Important
  • Movie

• Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

  

  Umberto Eco

• Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Boy

• Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• We could not guess how different from us they (extraterrestrials) might be. It was hard enough to guess the intentions of our elected representatives in Washington.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Different

• If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Taken

• The poem refreshes life so that we share, For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies Belief in an immaculate beginningAnd sends us, winged by an unconscious will, To an immaculate end.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life

• I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • History
  • Future
  • Evolution

• Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

  

  Alan Tudyk

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher