Muhammad Yunus Quotes

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

Muhammad Yunus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 28, 1940

Topics

MoneyPeopleNamesLittleComplete

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

John Burnside

TimePeopleBookThinkBetterDoing

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

Robert Redford

LifeAttitudeYourselfMy LifeDoing

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Matthew Henry

SatisfactionMostSweetestCreature

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Sienna Miller

BigBeingCommercialAverseFilms

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

Ron Johnson

LifeGreatJobControlWorldBetter

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

Mike McCready

FlowRecordingTenEvenDidTimes

Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.

Monika Chiang

GreatJobJewelryDesignMy OwnOwn

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Joshua Lederberg

TalentWishNewI WishClutterWell

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Jon Meacham

WorldIntellectualIndependentPress

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference.

Bruce Springsteen

GoodLiveBelieveMake A Difference

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PathMeRoadFreeHonorLonely

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Peter Akinola

AgeGriefChurchAmericanEmbrace

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