Floyd Arthur Harper Quotes

Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

Floyd Arthur Harper

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• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Love
  • Angry

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Plan

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Play

• Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • More
  • Artists
  • Others

• I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Author
  • Seeing
  • Traveler

• It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life

• The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Different
  • Vegas

• In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.

  

  David Harewood
  • American
  • Army

• My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

  

  Leon Max
  • People
  • Remember
  • Wife

• It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Up

• The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Women

• You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Law
  • Consultation
  • Muslim Traditions

• One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Question
  • Spiritual

• If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Money
  • Control
  • Charity

• Capital formation is the greatest charity of all.

  

  Floyd Arthur Harper
  • Charity
  • Formation