Thomas Sowell Quotes

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

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• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Space

• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Together
  • Movie

• Black girls, I feel, rock, in so many ways, especially coming from five girls.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Black
  • Rock

• The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Ballet

• We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • World
  • House
  • Question

• Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Job
  • Giving

• When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • Work

• In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Time
  • Moments

• It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

  

  Dashiell Hammett

• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Hero
  • Coward

• Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Needs
  • Love Is

• I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • School
  • Community
  • College

• My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Job
  • Wishes
  • My Mom

• Joe Gibbs helped define what the Washington Redskins stand for - integrity, hard work, determination, winning and championships.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Work
  • Winning
  • Integrity

• If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Winning
  • Battle
  • Civilization