Quesnay Francois Quotes & Sayings

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions. — Oskar Morgenstern

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. — Socrates

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — Michel De Montaigne

Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ. — Johnny Cash

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless. — Pope John Paul II

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble. — Maggie Siff

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. — Francois Quesnay

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Paul Claudel

If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death. — Rick Riordan

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. — Mary Beth McKenzie

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. — Francois Quesnay

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones. — Janine Di Giovanni

Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith. — Francois Quesnay

Those who suppose they are producing a materialist theory of knowledge when they make knowledge a passive recording and abandon the "active aspect" of knowledge to idealism, as Marx complains in the theses on Feuerbach, forget that all knowledge, and in particular all knowledge of the social world, is an act of construction implementing schemes of thought and expression, and that between conditions of existence and practices or representations there intervenes the structuring activity of the agents, who, far from reacting mechanically to mechanical stimulations, respond to the invitations or threats of a world whose meaning they have helped to produce. — Pierre Bourdieu