Thomas Sowell Quotes

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

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• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Family
  • Planning
  • Planned

• The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Planning

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.

  

  Verite
  • Good
  • Day
  • Myself

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Life
  • Success
  • Planning

• A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Long
  • Planning

• I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Exercise
  • Planning

• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Movie

• While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Party
  • Choices
  • Professional

• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

  

  John Grierson
  • Society
  • Planning

• Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Health
  • Architecture
  • Planning

• Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Help
  • Planning

• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Tough

• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Walking
  • Cat

• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Planning
  • States
  • Activism