Quotes of: Locked-up Keyword

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Ellsworth Huntington

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Ellsworth Huntington

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Edward Lazear

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

Chester Barnard

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Gary Hamel

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

George Stigler

I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

Ha-Joon Chang

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Ha-Joon Chang

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Herman Daly

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Jeremy Rifkin

If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

David Malpass

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

David Malpass

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

James Heckman

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

James Heckman

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Jeff Kinney

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

John Bates Clark

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Emily Greene Balch

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

Lawrence Summers

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Thomas Sowell

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

Alan Greenspan