Norman Lamont Quotes

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

Norman Lamont

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Sound

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Confidence

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Future

• Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • History
  • Mythology

• For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Trees

• I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Reality

• History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • History
  • Years
  • Story

• Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Men
  • Motives
  • Consists

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • Home
  • Murder
  • Confess

• This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Wonderful

• Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Jesus
  • Decision
  • Realize

• The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Chance
  • Policy
  • Market

• M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Show
  • Determined

• Every action has its pleasures and its price.

  

  Socrates
  • Action
  • Price
  • Pleasures

• You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'

  

  Epictetus
  • Question
  • Performance
  • Price

• The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

  

  William Weld
  • Stills
  • Rate
  • Unemployment

• Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

  

  Norman Lamont
  • Price
  • Inflation
  • Unemployment