William E. Simon Quotes

Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time.

William E. Simon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1927 - June 3, 2000

Topics

ChangeTimeSocialismSocietyLong

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

Joe Rogan

StressFightSocietyBehaviorRun

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Jill Scott

MusicTimeEnjoyLookOwnUs

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

SayingBelievePhilosophyBe TrueUs

We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

PeopleStoryThinkTalkFailBig

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

Mel Robbins

MomentDecisionsFeelMakeBased

Having boys is different. Boys, you put sneakers on, and they're out, they're ready. Girls, you gotta pay a little bit more attention to them.

Tracy Morgan

AttentionYouReadySneakersMore

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

LeadershipSomeoneAchieveWant

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly and trying to make sure I've got consistency.

Rodney Atkins

ConsistencyThinkTryingWhyOut

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

Julia Butterfly Hill

LiveCoolWorldCareDoingSight

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Alice Walker

GoodMotherDaughterTimeSchoolGo

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

Thomas Piketty

RichStock MarketYouLookFindOwn

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

Richard Greenberg

PeopleCityFeelYouHousePlace

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