Thomas Sowell Quotes

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

Thomas Sowell

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• That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Problem
  • Head
  • Bald

• You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Dignity

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Problem
  • Will
  • Clothes

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Tennis

• Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Thought

• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Need

• I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Same

• I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Problem
  • For Her

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

  

  James Brown
  • Sometimes
  • Audience
  • Causes

• Troubled heart you'll know, problems have solutions, trust and I will show.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Heart
  • Trust
  • Problems

• Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Band

• Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Causes
  • Bragging
  • Boston

• Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Face

• They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Perfect
  • Morning
  • Hours

• When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • You

• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Age
  • Perfect

• Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Friends
  • True
  • Spiritual

• Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Problem
  • Causes
  • Solutions