Bernard Lietaer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
-
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
-
Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
-
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
-
When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
-
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
-
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
-
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
-
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
-
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
-
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
-
My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
-
p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
-
Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
-
Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.
-
Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.
-
Yeah, I’m a great kisser.
-
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
-
Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.
-
Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
-
Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.
-
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
-
The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
