Mancur Olson Quotes

#1. Two weeks ago when you walked into my bedroom to use my phone, the life you been livin', which isn't all that good, got better. A fuckuva lot better. Because I'm gonna make it that way.

Kristen Ashley

#2. In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.

Jules Ferry

#3. Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Emily Carr

#4. Distributional coalitions slow down a society's capacity to adopt new technologies and to reallocate resources in response to changing conditions, and thereby reduce the rate of economic growth.

Mancur Olson

#5. What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Erica Jong

#6. Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

Keanu Reeves

#7. If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older ... more sinister.

Cullen Bunn

#8. Just as there can be little doubt that labor unions are a significant political force, neither can there be much question that this political force is a by-product of the purely industrial activities that unions regard as their major function.

Mancur Olson

#9. The way to God is ever within the heart, within the loving heart.

Harold Klemp

#10. I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

Matt Bomer

#11. Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

Barack Obama

#12. The knowledge of my depravity is the only thing that makes me special ... that I have always always always known, and have never for a moment been able to forget, that there is something terribly wrong with me.

Chris Adrian

#13. To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.

Tim Allen

#14. Avoid the wrath of the war outside the heart! It keeps raging on.
Hold on to its lullaby, even when the beats are gone.
The same things that both haunt and heal,
are the reason of bliss and the tears,
that you can only feel.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#15. Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Anthony De Mello

#16. I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

Rob Mariano

#17. Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.

Russell Brand