Thomas Sowell Quotes

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

• Maturity
• Eternal
• Imperfection
• Crucial
• Vigilance

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I need the Lord's guidance on what to do... I asked God for wisdom.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Wisdom

• What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Good

• Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Stop

• When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Rest

• I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Understanding

• I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People

• Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Life
  • Music
  • Famous

• I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

  

  Big Boi

• The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

  

  Janine Turner

• You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

  

  Master P
  • Mind

• I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Amazing

• In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Courage
  • Literature
  • Greek

• In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • People
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• The guy goes into the stands. How'd he pull it out? If I was a fan, I would've mauled him.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Guy
  • Fan
  • Stands

• Michigan taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about maturity, accountability, dependability. And there were so many things to meet, having that number, things I would have earned. If I had went to Michigan and just worn 80 and had a good career, I wouldn't have fulfilled what I wanted.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Career
  • Maturity
  • Meet

• Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

  

  Milarepa
  • Light
  • Mountain
  • Strange

• Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Maturity
  • Eternal
  • Imperfection