William Graham Sumner Quotes

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Children
  • Eye

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Long
  • Alone

• Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Up
  • Film
  • Doing

• I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Care
  • First
  • Debate

• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Marine
  • Recruit
  • San Diego

• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Want
  • Hollywood
  • Fulfilled

• The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Solutions
  • Determined
  • Both

• Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Hands

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Interview
  • Restless

• The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Devotion

• What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • People
  • Care
  • Feeding

• As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Work
  • Different
  • Long

• As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Real estate

• It's all about embracing your inner beauty and just living for yourself.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Beauty
  • Living
  • Embracing

• There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Virtue
  • Economy
  • Industry