Shlaes Great Quotes

#1. The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.

Amity Shlaes

#3. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present

Donna Augustine

#4. Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

Russell Baker

#5. There were certain elements of the human world that where out of their control: war, inflation, American Idol ... all things which could cause major irritation to a vampire's daily life.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#6. We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

Margaret Mead

#7. To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amity Shlaes

#8. I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

Ruby Gettinger

#9. To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.

Ellen J. Barrier

#10. I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Bob Goff

#11. What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

Billy Graham

#12. When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.

Wayne Dyer

#13. I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Jeff Bridges

#14. The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Edward Bach

#15. Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#16. With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

Warren Buffett

#17. We did a reunion when TV One first launched episodes of 'Living Single'. Every time any of the gang comes through Atlanta, though, we always visit.

Kim Fields