David Ricardo Quotes

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 18, 1772 - September 11, 1823

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RiseAffectWagesWouldSlowly

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

Joanna Lumley

MeYouPlaceEdgeGoKnow

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Jemima Kirke

FunnyBetterLaughWayBeing Funny

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

Mavis Staples

FatherMoneyPeopleMeLegacyStop

I love my son and am proud of my son.

Robert H. Schuller

LoveSonProudI LoveAm

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.

John Updike

LookHouseRoofSomeChimneyHouses

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

Steve Irwin

LifeFearLosingSnakeMy LifeWill

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.

Amitava Kumar

MindLongWorkingArtistsManyHeld

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

NatureWealthContentWhoRichest

When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.

Sia

DayMadnessYouEvery DayPlace

I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.

Sia

PeopleMeFeelingsNervousFine

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Shirley Chisholm

PoliticsWomanBlackDiscrimination

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Rory Bremner

FatherTruthBornYearsCancerKnew

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