William Rees-mogg Quotes

#1. Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

William E. Rees

#2. War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

William Rees-Mogg

#3. In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Curtis Jackson

#4. Most of our competitors were one-product wonders ... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Bill Gates

#5. By the end of 1978, we had 11 partners and six franchisees, we were operating in 22 cities, and we had about 6,000 clients. We had left Electronic Accounting Systems and were doing our own processing on our own computers.

Tom Golisano

#6. Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

William Rees-Mogg

#7. Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

Bob Hope

#8. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.

William Rees-Mogg

#9. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Dan Brown

#10. It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#11. Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."

"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.

Sidney Halston

#12. The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years

William Rees-Mogg

#13. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Preeti Shenoy

#14. The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#15. The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

William Rees-Mogg

#16. Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

William Rees-Mogg

#17. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

Betty Smith

#18. I think I'll buy you from your father so you can say nice things like that to me three times a day. How much for her, Mo?

Cornelia Funke

#19. There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Max Von Sydow

#20. BY THE EARLY 1960S, GE was receiving more speaking invitations for me from around the country than I could handle. And, although I was still saying the same things that I'd said for six years during the Eisenhower administration, I was suddenly being called a right-wing extremist.

Ronald Reagan

#21. To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

William E. Rees

#22. The good news is that ... humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

William E. Rees

#23. She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose] ...

Eva Ibbotson

#24. One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.

William E. Rees

#25. We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age ...

William E. Rees

#26. I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

Arthur Conan Doyle