Heilbroner Economics Quotes & Sayings

You might be a redneck if you have to go outside to get something out of the fridge. — Jeff Foxworthy

I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle. — Josh McDermitt

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation. — Henry Miller

You women have more holes than swiss cheese. — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose. — Tammy Faye Bakker

We are who we are. I have no desire to be something else. But right now I'm afraid of what it means for those who I care about. — Andrea Cremer

It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything? — Neil Gaiman

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner

One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world. — Jane Hirshfield

The people who lived in this building had figured out something important about life, and she'd stumbled upon their secret. There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be content to stay where you were. She imagined more places like this, hidden behind walls or stands of trees, places where people kept their secrets to themselves. — Matthew Thomas

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process. — Todd Rundgren

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world ... — Madonna Ciccone

There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie. — Nicholson Baker

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. — Robert Heilbroner

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions. — George Washington

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment. — Robert Heilbroner

What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. — William Shakespeare

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner