Theoni Collection Quotes & Sayings

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists. — Ludwig Von Mises

Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation. — Janet Yellen

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them. — Tony Judt

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict. — Garrison Keillor

I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson. — Nick Offerman

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art. — Anton Webern

If you just know God, have a sense of His depth of love and abundance of grace all for you in Christ, you'll consequently find wealth appropriately unimpressive and suffering appropriately untroubling. This — Matt Chandler