Oskar Morgenstern Quotes

#1. Use your life to wake you up.

Pema Chodron

#2. ...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

Oskar Morgenstern

#3. The more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.

Darrel Ray

#4. Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Oskar Morgenstern

#5. Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold

#6. writing it helped me to believe it. It staked some claim on the truth.

Amanda Lindhout

#7. But the truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world? It couldn't, plan and simple.

Delia Parr

#8. I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still have over an hour drive ahead of me.

-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain

Ashley Jade

#9. Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

Agatha Christie

#10. You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#11. Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.

Rihanna

#12. I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere ... Sky is not a common commodity.

El Anatsui

#13. Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.

Oskar Morgenstern

#14. Quayle himself was a surprisingly elegant man of sixty winters or more. (One might equally have said "sixty springs" or "sixty summers," but that would have been inaccurate, for Quayle was a man of bare trees and frozen water.)

John Connolly

#15. When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

Eliza Leslie

#16. May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption.

Scotty Smith