Adam Smith Quotes

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

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• Hizbullah is not a militia.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Militia

• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Down

• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Time
  • Great
  • Independent

• I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Game
  • Night
  • Day

• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Free Trade is a great pacificator. We have had many quarrels, many causes of quarrels, during the last fifty years, but we have not had a single war with any first-class Power. Free Trade is slowly but surely cleaving a path through the dense and dark thicket of armaments to the sunny land of brotherhood amongst nations.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Great
  • Power
  • War

• What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Family