Angus Deaton Quotes

#1. In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat - and some smartass had sold them guns.

Daniel Suarez

#2. Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. When I breathe,
This sound in my chest
Lonelier than the winter wind

Takuboku Ishikawa

#4. personality to match. He had an opinion about everything that went on in her house, from where she kept the tea bags to Billy's spelling tests to why she didn't buy out Aidan and run the bar herself. And to make matters worse, he had a better social life

Barbara Bretton

#5. I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

Gavin DeGraw

#6. If poverty is not a result of lack of resources or opportunities, but of poor institutions, poor government, and toxic politics, giving money to poor countries - particularly giving money to the governments of poor countries - is likely to perpetuate and prolong poverty, not eliminate it. The

Angus Deaton

#7. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

#8. Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Ezra Taft Benson

#9. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Ernesto Che Guevara

#10. They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that.

Ilona Andrews

#11. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

#12. I came to understand that we do not change gradually, peacefully, over time, but that we undergo sudden upheavals that overthrow our best-laid plans, change our character and redesign the shape of our life, all in the matter of moments.

Catherine Delors

#13. You think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's only some bugger with a torch bringing you more work.

David Brent

#14. If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.

Rick Warren

#15. If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.

Layne Beachley