Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.
I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrif...
[God] loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our résumé but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, aw...
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with f...
Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is s...
Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.
Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.
