William Graham Sumner Quotes

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

William Graham Sumner

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• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Want
  • House
  • Know

• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Fact
  • Hot
  • Fingers

• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  

  Sam Farr
  • People
  • Peace
  • Government

• Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Bad

• He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Why
  • Song
  • Star

• Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

  

  Donna Tartt

• When you commit to a WWE contract, you're committing to some serious time away from home.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Time
  • Home
  • Serious

• The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Free
  • Slavery

• You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dirty
  • Fingers
  • Sauce

• There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • World
  • Category
  • George Mitchell

• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• ...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Long
  • King
  • Anything

• You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • I Can
  • Fingers
  • Who I Am

• Now I did do later drawings where I tried putting fingers on them but it never looked right to me they weren't as appealing as that first drawing."

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Drawing
  • Fingers
  • Appealing

• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Red
  • Break
  • Fingers

• The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Fingers
  • Identical

• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Greed
  • Loneliness
  • Vulnerable

• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Mean

• When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Imagine
  • 20
  • 30

• FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Failure
  • Stories
  • Hero

• The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Fingers
  • Reformers