Thomas Sowell Quotes

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

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• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Help
  • Peace
  • Collaboration

• I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Think
  • Doubt

• At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Attention
  • College
  • Same

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Always
  • Advice

• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Child

• That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Good
  • Why
  • Turkey

• I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Fall
  • Cheer

• He Lenny Dykstra might be Nails, but I'm frickin' bayonets.

  

  Charlie Sheen

• I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

  

  Danny Meyer

• The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Family

• With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Business

• In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Missing

• If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Lacking

• One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • People
  • Country
  • Player

• ...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Men
  • Memories
  • Paradise

• Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Society
  • Abilities
  • Assumptions

• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Success
  • Science
  • Failure