William Stanley Jevons Quotes
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.William Stanley Jevons
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell -
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
Patricia Birch -
I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
Rachael Leigh -
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
I. M. Pei -
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
Ingrid Newkirk -
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I'm not a negative person.
Ian Somerhalder -
I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
Haley Bennett -
'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'
Maggie Stiefvater -
Beauty is a whore.
Walker Percy
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
Ben Horowitz -
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
Neil Gaiman -
I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.
Leslie Odom, Jr. -
No matter what happens in my career, I've always got 'The Fall.'
Jamie Dornan -
I don't think that I'm old.
Jamie Moyer -
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell
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I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.
Dries van Noten -
I've laid my friends bare.
Joanne Rowling -
Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
Carly Fiorina -
Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
Letitia Baldrige -
If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson -
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
William Stanley Jevons