Adam Smith Quotes
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
-
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
-
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
-
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
-
I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
-
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
-
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
-
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
-
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
-
N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
-
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
-
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
-
In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
-
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
-
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
-
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
-
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
-
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
-
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
