Industrialized Economy Quotes & Sayings

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. — John Quincy Adams

I almost forgot," said Red. His voice sounded very strange, as if from a long, long distance. He reached into his pocket. "I have something for you."
He put it into my hand. A round, shiny, perfect apple, green as new grass with a faint blush of rosy pink. And now his eyes had changed so that I saw what lay there, hidden deep, so deep only the bravest or most foolhardy would seek to find it.
He has always understood me better, without words. So I laid my hand on my heart, held it there for a moment, and then moved it over and touched my palm against his breast. My heart. Your heart. — Juliet Marillier

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act. — Clay Shirky

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love. — Sophocles

on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions. — Anthony Doerr

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy. — Jack Kingston

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity. — Olivia Wilde

I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game. — Pete Rose

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. — David Duchovny

The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools. — Santosh Kalwar

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Sustain a bright and joyful spirit. — Cornelia Connelly

The peasantry had only recently been freed from slavelike servitude, and they were crushed with debt. The economy was stagnant. The country was hardly industrialized; there were not many factories. Though in St. Petersburg itself, nobles and sophisticates attended balls in Parisian gowns and discussed the poetry of the French, this ramshackle empire also included huge, frigid wastes of fir tree and tundra, deserts where the only inhabitants were nomadic families with their herds, and mountain towns that had never even heard the name of their distant ruler. — M T Anderson

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. — Roddy Doyle

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world! — Richard Price

They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high production and rapid transportation of goods. However vast the distances separating settlements, they held to the ideal of complex organicism. — Ursula K. Le Guin