Optimality Quotes

#1. I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here

Paul Romer

#2. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.

Ted Lowe

#3. Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

Patrick Macnee

#4. I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Marc Singer

#5. Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.

Pope Francis

#6. I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.

Norman Lock

#7. When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

Melissa Joan Hart

#9. The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Jacques Monod

#10. The east is not for me
the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#12. I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Andree Putman