Adam Smith Quotes

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

Adam Smith

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• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Water

• Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

  

  Larry David
  • May
  • Myself
  • Jewish

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Football

• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • American
  • Name
  • Irish

• The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Hazards
  • Fullness

• I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Politics
  • Identity
  • Opportunities

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Enemies

• I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • I Can
  • Fantastic

• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Science
  • Inspiration
  • Essence

• I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

  

  Kanye West
  • Good
  • Never
  • Learn

• As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Great

• The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Live
  • Wise

• All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Together
  • Small

• I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Listening

• 'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Reality

• The important thing is to end a conflict that has brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose , it would be most important that I receive them as soon as possible.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• You have a short window, you know, and if I plan on living the lifestyle I want, I've got to make a nest egg.

  

  Donald Cerrone

• Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Success
  • Obstacles
  • Reaction

• Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.

  

  Jo Bonner
  • Time
  • Country
  • Thoughts

• One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Bible

• Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

  

  Adam Smith