Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Bok

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Narendra Modi

World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

Narendra Modi

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

Narendra Modi

Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

Chen Ning Yang

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Charlie Munger

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

Charlie Munger

It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

Bill O'Reilly

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

Bill Gross

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Dave Barry

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Edward James Olmos

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

Barry Corbin

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

Audrey Meadows

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

Anne Sullivan

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

John Perkins

We're aware that there's a worldwide shortage of refinery capacity and to that extent, we've let it be known that we'd be amenable to discussing the possibility in Nova Scotia, and we have had discussions with a couple of parties.

Frederick Saunders

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frank Burns

As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Houssaye Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.