David Blanchflower Quotes

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

David Blanchflower

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• There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Really

• Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Parent
  • Loss
  • Prepare

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • School
  • Risk

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Future
  • Name
  • Jewelry

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Why
  • Know

• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Mornings

• When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Loved
  • Kid

• By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Population
  • Local
  • Whale

• Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • High
  • Integrity
  • Transparent

• No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Model
  • Economic
  • Where

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

  

  Peter Milligan

• You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Script

• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Morning

• Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Honest
  • Usually

• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Passion

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.

  

  David Blanchflower
  • Economy
  • Satisfaction
  • Population