Knight Frank Quotes & Sayings

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good. — Frank Knight

The Dark Knight series is all from Batman's point of view. But if you look at Dark Knight 2, you'll see a Superman who's much calmer than the one in the first Dark Knight. Batman and Superman are dead opposites. I love Superman. Do I love Batman more? They're not people. They're only lines on paper. — Frank Miller

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. — Frank Knight

These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do good. They tend, however slightly, to give the actions, the conduct, that turn wich Reason approves, and whic Feeling, perharps, too ofter opposes: they certainly make a difference in the general tenor of a life, and certainly make a difference in the general tenor of a life, and enable it to be better regulated, mofe equable, quieter on the surface; and it is on the surface only the common gaze will fall. — Charlotte Bronte

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all ... the social struggle and strife would ... [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity ... in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. — Frank Knight

Large scale collective bargaining ... is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute. — Frank Knight

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest. — Frank Knight

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest. — Frank Knight

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do. — Frank Knight

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. — Megan Fox

[T]he great end of education ... is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue. — George Turnbull

Even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. — Frank Knight

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping. — Frank H. Knight

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual. — Frank Knight

Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between those two points is the journey. — R.C. Richter

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. — Virginia Woolf

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey. — Angel Cox

I have been ... moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street. — Frank Knight

Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921,45 is something that you can put a price on. Say that you'll win a poker hand unless your opponent draws to an inside straight: the chances of that happening are exactly 1 chance in 11.46 This is risk. It is not pleasant when you take a "bad beat" in poker, but at least you know the odds of it and can account for it ahead of time. In the long run, you'll make a profit from your opponents making desperate draws with insufficient odds. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is risk that is hard to measure. You might have some vague awareness of the demons lurking out there. You might even be acutely concerned about them. But you have no real idea how many of them there are or when they might strike. Your back-of-the-envelope estimate might be off by a factor of 100 or by a factor of 1,000; there is no good way to know. This is uncertainty. Risk greases the wheels of a free-market economy; uncertainty grinds them to a halt. — Nate Silver

The truth seems ... to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant. — Frank Knight

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made. — Frank Knight

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example. — Patsy Kensit

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort. — Margaret E. Knight

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. — Frank Knight

The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation. — Frank Knight

Jeff Eastin is good in that he'll tell me a plot twist that's coming up if he thinks it would be something Peter would know ahead of time, and if it's something that would be a surprise to Peter, I'll tell Jeff, 'Oh, don't tell me. I don't want to know.' And then it's exciting to read it and exciting to play it. — Tim DeKay

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that. — Al Jarreau

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. — Oriana Fallaci

The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. - Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics — Bryan Caplan

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. — Frank Knight

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar

One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well. — Jessica Bates

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do. — Frank Knight

One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big. — Frank Knight

When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in. — Max Brooks

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time. — Frank Miller

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change. — Frank Knight