George Kaiser Quotes

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • End
  • Fight
  • Train

• I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Long
  • Live
  • City

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• God is in the details.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • God

• Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Life
  • Live
  • Success

• That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Money

• Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • People
  • Stupid

• I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Fun
  • Dying

• I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • People

• Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

  

  Frank Leahy
  • Pain

• I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life

• Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

  

  James Watkins
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

  

  Bill Delahunt
  • Sales

• My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • God
  • Free
  • Pain

• The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

  

  Annette Funicello
  • Failure
  • Divorce

• What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

  

  Peter Marino

• Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Science

• As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Depression

• If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  

  Abram Hoffer
  • Control
  • Wealth
  • Research

• During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.

  

  George Kaiser
  • Depression
  • Companies
  • Losses