Ekonomika Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A good turnout at church today. It had nothing to do with the mild weather and a desire to gossip and everything to do with my oratory skills, I am perfectly convinced. Indeed, if not for Mrs Attwood's new bonnet, I would have had the ladies' undivided attention. The gentlemen I was more certain of. They had no interest in bonnets, new or otherwise, and listened in pleasing silence, broken only by an occasional snore. — Amanda Grange

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. — Jean Vanier

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone. — Anthony Hopkins

And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them that he almost cried, and his mother always used to take him away from the window. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler

Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life. — Chris Matakas

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons. — Egon Bahr

To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more. — Thomas Browne

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence. — Brian Greene

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed. — Whitney Johnson

He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine.
Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor. — Jennifer Estep

The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies. — Thomas Huxley

The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others. — Margaret Levi