Thomas Sowell Quotes

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

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• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Future
  • Limits

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Why
  • Movie
  • Military

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Suffering

• I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure. I came home and I asked my husband, I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • World
  • Interesting

• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • She
  • Friendship

• I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Important
  • Women
  • True

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men
  • Death

• The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Professional
  • Fly
  • Athlete

• I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Game

• Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

  

  Dilip Shanghvi

• Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Communication

• 'It is enough', this malicious man tells us, 'to extinguish the line of the defeated prince.' Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

  

  Frederick the Great
  • Prince

• I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Think about it, there must be higher love Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above Without it, life is a wasted time Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Love

• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Family
  • School
  • Church

• We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Film
  • Wanted
  • Stopped

• Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Smart