Thomas Sowell Quotes

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Like
  • Doing
  • I Can

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• 'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Presence

• I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Evangelist

• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Problem
  • Spiritual

• I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Decision

• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Point
  • Instrument

• The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Reality

• When I don't know what to do with a character, that's when I say yes to it. When it's far away from the way I am, the way I feel or the way I think, that's when it's more attractive.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Character

• I'm happy to fight anybody.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • Fight
  • Anybody

• Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Control

• In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

  

  Constance Rourke
  • Criticism
  • Social
  • Tradition

• We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People

• Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
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  • Liberty