Thomas Sowell Quotes
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's always best to be who you are.
-
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
-
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
-
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
-
My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
-
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
-
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
-
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
-
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
-
I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
-
The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
-
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
-
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
-
I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
-
You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
-
Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
-
Some people will talk about how Afghanistan has improved, but they're really just talking about the cities. In the countryside where the war has been fought, it's really not that much better than it was in 2001.
-
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
-
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
-
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
-
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.
