Leonard William Economist Quotes

Coal, in truth, stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country - the universal aid - the factor in everything we do." - William Stanley Jevons, economist, 1865 ~ Naomi Klein

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ~ Nassau William Senior

I like a quote given on a review from Robert Leonard- KCR Illustrated.
Never forget the adage, "You know you are telling the truth and are on to something special if it drives the far-left crazy and the extreme-right insane. ~ William Dunaway

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003 ~ William Gibson

In respect to Drower, and still more with Biruni and his medieval contemporaries, I am reminded of the praise given to Sir William Jones, the proponent of the idea that European and Indian languages had one common source. 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' commented political economist James Anderson, 'who by painful researches, tend to remove those destructive veils which have so long concealed mankind from each other. ~ Gerard Russell

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ~ Nassau William Senior

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis. ~ William Stanley Jevons

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. ~ William Stanley Jevons

Major General Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood was an army officer and physician, born October 9, 1860 in Winchester, New Hampshire. His first assignment was in 1886 at Fort Huachuca, Arizona where he fought in the last campaign against the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and was promoted to the rank of Captain, commanding a detachment of the 8th Infantry.

From 1887 to 1898, he served as a medical officer in a number of positions, the last of which was as the personal physician to President William McKinley. In 1898 at the beginning of the war with Spain, he was given command of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry. The regiment was soon to be known as the "Rough Riders." Wood lead his men on the famous charge up San Juan Hill and was given a field promotion to brigadier general.

In 1898 he was appointed the Military Governor of Santiago de Cuba. In 1920, as a retired Major General, Wood ran as the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, losing to Warren Harding. In 1921 following his defeat, General Wood accepted the post of Governor General of the Philippines. He held this position from 1921 to 1927, when he died of a brain tumor in Boston, on 7 August 1927, at 66 years of age after which he was buried, with full honors, in Arlington National Cemetery. ~ Hank Bracker

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be. ~ William Nordhaus

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young. ~ Frederick William Faber

Everything I've never done, I want to do with you. ~ William Chapman

So young and so untender?"
"So young, my Lord, and true. ~ William Shakespeare

but you're giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl. ~ William Boyd

We know what we are, but not what we may be. ~ William Shakespeare

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others. ~ William Blake

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. ~ Leonard Cohen

Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation. ~ William Shakespeare

An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete ... Its motor consequences are what clinch it ... ~ William James

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. ~ William Shakespeare

Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt
Thou resurrection rain. ~ William Batchelder Greene

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. ~ William Shakespeare

She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov'd. ~ William Shakespeare

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. ~ William Shatner

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. ~ William Blake

In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion. ~ William Shakespeare

When I started writing screenplays, as early as I started writing anything, I hadn't seen any ordinary screenplays. I saw movies and figured out how I thought they should be written. ~ William Monahan

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. ~ William Butler Yeats

I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. ~ William Shakespeare