Alfred Marshall Quotes

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Alfred Marshall

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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Open
  • Engagement
  • Dialogue

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Four

• One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Help

• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Always

• I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Great
  • Will
  • Next

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Brain
  • Learn

• And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Question
  • Big
  • Soviet

• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Future
  • Like

• Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Angry

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Hope
  • Learned
  • Illness

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Funny
  • Credit
  • Tongue

• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Women

• Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • American
  • Thanks

• If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Age
  • Roles
  • Intimacy

• In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Women

• Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

  

  Alfred Marshall