Top 100 Quotes About Spence
#1. Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me.
Moez Surani
#2. She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle class values make me sick'.
John A. Walker
#3. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
Isaac Barrow
#4. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.
Libba Bray
#5. I'd never seen a guy get the shit kicked out of him without a punch being landed, but there's a first time for everything, and my father had shown how to do it. Principle Spence offered nothing in return.
Michael Harmon
#6. Has anyone else here seen or fought a nightmare?"
Marshal Spence Neumann lifted his head. "Seen one. Swear to God it looked like my ex-wife for a second."
A chuckle rumbled within the group. Someone mumbled, "She was a nightmare.
Erin Kellison
#7. The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'
Ben Bernanke
#8. For the next hour, Joanne clung to Spence's back, comfortable now with the enforced physical intimacy, loving the wind on her face, the swoops and dizzying corners , the way other bikers saluted as if she and Spence belonged, with them, to a select club.
Bobby Hutchinson
#9. What kind of name is Siler-Spence? I mean, what's wrong with these women who use hyphens? What if her name was Skowinski and she married a guy named Levondowski? Would her little liberated soul insist she go through life as F.Gwendolin Skowinski- Levondowski?
John Grisham
#10. Yes, fine," I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea who isn't really here.
Libba Bray
#11. In a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It's fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals. Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It's a laugh, really.
Libba Bray
#12. One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
Vincent Bugliosi
#13. Because you've got balls of steel.'
I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.
Cora Carmack
#14. Wilton Spencer," she said softly, "why do you have to be so damned smart?"
Spence smiled. "Darned smart," he said; then he wiped her tears away and kissed her on the tip of her nose.
Jackie French Koller
#15. As I look through my box of photos, my eyes well up with tears as I hold in front of me, the one of my brother Spence when he was five years old. He looks so cute in his cowboy outfit, drawing his toy pistols as if he were having a showdown with nasty outlaws.
Terra Lorin
#16. God deliver me from the sin o' fornication," Spence gasped, clutching at the sheets of blood that poured from the deep gash in his head. "Have the bastards killed me?
Marsha Canham
#17. There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices ... But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?
Libba Bray
#18. In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.
Lewis Spence
#19. When values are clear, decisions are easy.
John Spence
#20. Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.
John Spence
#21. Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.
John Spence
#22. The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.
Carma Spence
#23. We die, he said.
We die, I said. And kn owing this how do we live?
Knowing this, we live.
We live.
Alan Spence
#25. As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
Gerry Spence
#26. The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.
Gerry Spence
#27. Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.
Jonathan D. Spence
#28. How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
Gerry Spence
#29. Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
Gerry Spence
#30. The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
Gerry Spence
#31. To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
Gerry Spence
#32. Without argument the species would parish.
Gerry Spence
#33. There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
Gerry Spence
#34. Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
John Spence
#35. As a child, everyone dreams of finding treasure. There's romance and drama. But as an adult most people aren't going to spend their lives trying to find it.
E. Lee Spence
#36. Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence
#37. I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
#38. Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.
John Spence
#40. Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
Gerry Spence
#41. Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
John Spence
#42. The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
Catherine Helen Spence
#43. Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.
Gerry Spence
#44. The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
Gerry Spence
#45. People are more what they hide than what they show.
John Spence
#46. The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
Gerry Spence
#47. Live from the inside out. Your mind, body and spirit are interconnected. Nourish your soul with mental and physical wellness.
Janet Taylor Spence
#48. Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.
Gerry Spence
#49. Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.
Gerry Spence
#50. When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
John Spence
#51. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
John Spence
#52. When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
Gerry Spence
#53. What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow.
John Spence
#54. If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.
Jonathan D. Spence
#55. Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem ... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.
John Spence
#56. Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
Gerry Spence
#57. Gazing into his eyes, I was lost in their intensity. It was like looking into the bluest sky and carrying on to infinity. I felt mesmerised, hypnotised and transfixed all at once.
Pat Spence - Blue Moon
#58. Words that do not create images should be discarded.
Gerry Spence
#59. The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.
Michael Spence
#61. What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Gerry Spence
#62. A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
Gerry Spence
#63. We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
John Spence
#64. Forget vampires," he laughed dismissively.
"Who wants to drink blood for eternity? What we have discovered is far more seductive and a great deal more dangerous ...
Pat Spence - Blue Moon
#65. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
John Spence
#66. Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
Catherine Helen Spence
#67. A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.
Richard B. Spence
#68. The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
Gerry Spence
#69. The Internet ... has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.
Gerry Spence
#70. Roll the Dice and Watch Them Come Up Snake Eyes Eve
Jackson Spence
#72. You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
John Spence
#73. The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus.
Roy Spence
#74. Maybe the most dangerous thing about the "Illuminati" isn't that such a master cabal has ever existed, but that some people believe it should and wreak havoc under the delusion they run the world.
Richard B. Spence
#75. Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.
Roy Spence
#76. If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
John Spence
#77. Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.
Michael Spence
#78. South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Catherine Helen Spence
#79. Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.
John Spence
#80. My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
John Spence
#81. The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
Gerry Spence
#82. invest simultaneously in the agricultural sector, in education, in productivity-enhancing technology and its dissemination, and in infrastructure that enables connectivity to the rest of the economy.
Michael Spence
#84. I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
Catherine Helen Spence
#86. Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.
E. Lee Spence
#87. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
John Spence
#89. To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Gerry Spence
#90. Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Gerry Spence
#91. There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
Gerry Spence
#92. It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.
Michael Spence
#93. Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
Gerry Spence
#94. Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts - tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.
Jonathan D. Spence
#95. Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
Gerry Spence
#96. Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
Gerry Spence
#97. The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.
Gerry Spence
#98. Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
John Spence
#99. While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
John Spence
#100. Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.
Michael Spence
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