Thomas Sowell Quotes

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

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• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Like

• Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Dirty

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Kind

• One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

  

  Gary Neville
  • You
  • Year
  • Poor

• It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Power
  • Process

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

• It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Horse

• During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

  

  Constance Wu
  • World
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I have a lot of analog. I think a lot of people do. There are a lot of people that are re-discovering it. I still have a lot of my old records from back in the day. It's a joy to play things like Junior Wells' 'Hoodoo Man Blues,' and John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. There's a warmth that you can still feel.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • Joy

• Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Live
  • Blessed

• The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Power
  • Struggle
  • Dying

• While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Men
  • Wall
  • Police

• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Men
  • Country
  • Republican