Thomas Sowell Quotes

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • World
  • Real
  • Training

• Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Wise
  • Countries

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Different
  • Explore

• The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Children
  • Love
  • You

• Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Money
  • Short

• Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Help
  • House
  • Me

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Things
  • Place
  • Able

• French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  

  Edward Young

• I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Work

• The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Real

• In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Life
  • Money
  • Nature

• Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Band
  • Fire

• People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People

• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Meetings
  • Productive