William Stanley Jevons Quotes

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

William Stanley Jevons

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• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • She
  • Mother
  • Singing

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• Political correctness kills discussion.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Political
  • Discussion

• St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • High
  • City
  • Lies

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • True
  • Stories

• To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Care
  • Poverty

• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Together
  • Go

• If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • You
  • Yourself

• The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Words
  • Angels
  • Bully

• Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Nature
  • Clear Messages

• I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • School
  • She

• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Space
  • Development

• Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Time
  • Character
  • Together

• The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Tradition

• I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Rule

• In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Form