Thomas Sowell Quotes

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Church
  • Ignorance

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Simple

• Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Short
  • Stand

• I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • Will

• They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Richardson
  • Me
  • Call
  • Skinny

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Way

• As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • What Matters
  • Creeds
  • Firmness

• I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Real

• Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Want
  • Single
  • Film

• London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.

  

  Edgar Wallace
  • Patience
  • Tragedy
  • Satisfaction

• When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Influence

• Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Love
  • Kiss
  • Delight

• Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Genius
  • Tragedy
  • Idiot