Economic Input Quotes

#1. You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

Patricia T. O'Conner

#3. Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it.

Nora Roberts

#4. What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in ... but it sure is beautiful.

Joss Whedon

#5. I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

Patrick White

#6. ISMENE: How can I live alone, without her?
CREON: Her? Don't even mention her
she no longer exists.
ISMENE: What? You'd kill your own son's bride?
CREON: Absolutely: there are other fields for him to plow.

Sophocles

#7. Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Elaine Scarry

#8. Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

Kevin Bales

#9. I could ... see in Emerson ... that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Herman Melville

#10. Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Michel Chossudovsky

#11. This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

Wade Boggs

#12. And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain.

Alain De Botton

#13. The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Mahatma Gandhi