Celestino Greece Quotes & Sayings

At any rate, planning in this sense means all-around planning by the government and enforcement of these plans by the police power. Planning in this sense means full government control of business. It is the antithesis of free enterprise, private initiative, private ownership of the means of production, market economy, and the price system. Planning and capitalism are ut- terly incompatible. Within a system of planning production is conducted according to the government's orders, not according to the plans of capitalists and entrepreneurs eager to profit by best filling the wants of the consumers. — Ludwig Von Mises

It seemed that my identity had necessarily split, that I'd turned into a different person. I could look at her now and see all that stoic ferocity in her eyes, how she wanted to do something that could never be undone. Something permanent. Some little forever. But I'm not interested in forever. Not anymore. — Catherine Lacey

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, ... that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. — Lord Byron

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work. — Kim Basinger

Mercy.
Do any of the gods care about such things or only that their contracts and agreements are fulfilled? — T.K. Thorne

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited. — Bob Burg

Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era. — Alex Pareene

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful. — Paul Bourget

One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. — Sophocles

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization. — Isaac Mizrahi

In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness. — Joseph Conrad

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. — Hamid Karzai