Wordbytes Quotes

#1. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#2. As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Katharine Whitehorn

#3. I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

Rachel Zucker

#4. An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Renee Zellweger

#6. Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.

Gary Snyder

#7. Yes, my works ... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Sigmar Polke

#8. Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.

Hugh Shelton

#9. People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others.

Karen Armstrong

#10. I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

Harsha Bhogle

#11. None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Samuel Johnson

#12. I'm a normal guy.

Jack Ma