Quotes of: Locke Keyword

Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.

Gus O'Donnell

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

Nouriel Roubini

So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.

Austan Goolsbee

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is d...

Christina Romer

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Eugene Fama

By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed...

James O'Shaughnessy

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

Lawrence Summers

You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Noreena Hertz

For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.

Sendhil Mullainathan

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Thomas Sowell

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Thomas Sowell

Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: I locked myself out of my apartment... [pause] Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: ... and it's so late.

Eraserhead

Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's gonna contain her?

Inception

Anger: I say we lock ourselves in our room and use that one swear word we know. It's a good one!

Inside Out

Barry the Baptist: When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Barry the Baptist: Hello son, would you like a lolly? Little Chris: Piss off, you nonce!

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Soap: You're not funny, Tom. You're fat, and look as though you should be, but you're not.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Barfly Jack: He then proceeds to order an Aristotle of the most ping-pong tiddly in the Nuclear sub.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Soap: A little bit of pain never hurt anybody, if you know what I mean.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Dog: What the fuck is that? Mickey: It's me bren gun. Dog: Couldn't you have thought of something more practical?

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Eddie: As you know this puts us in an awkward position... I don't have enough to continue.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels