Elise M. Boulding Quotes

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Elise M. Boulding

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Think
  • Boy
  • Back

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Good
  • House
  • Question

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Allow

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Believe
  • First
  • Old

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Strong
  • Commitment
  • Florida

• Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Psychology
  • Heroes

• If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Start
  • Police
  • Edge

• I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Like

• Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Really
  • Pens
  • Comedians

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Language
  • Create
  • I Believe

• In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Night
  • Black
  • Looks

• I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Done

• Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Happiness
  • Victory
  • Battles

• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Society
  • Happiness
  • Teach