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John Maynard Keynes Quotes

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1883 - April 21, 1946

Topics

Power Ideas May Greater Errors Than

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Joe Biden

Friend Partner America Self-Interest

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

Mel Torme

Past Me Writing Find Will Anything

'Mean Girls' is awesome.

Max Minghella

Mean Awesome

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

John Salley

People Team Game Dream Down Play

I can't stand the idea of being demagogued: that is, put down by a president who has never created any jobs and who doesn't even understand how the economy works.

Steve Wynn

Stand Down Understand Never Economy

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

Tommy Chong

Time Me Jail Up Just Comedian

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Michael Symon

Understanding Bones Pastry Make

I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me.

Mitchel Musso

Me Face Back I Can Right Kid

I wish I could be on 'Politically Incorrect.' Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name.

Julia Stiles

Good Think Name Generation Wish

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

Don Rickles

Down Sometimes Never Anything Going

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

Nature Leader I Am Vacuum Because

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Dexter Fletcher

Doing You Early Find Up Something