Barber Conable famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
-- Barber Conable

#Work #Two #Income
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
-- Barber Conable

#Decision #Exhaustion #Exasperation
Good environmentalism is good economics
-- Barber Conable

#Business #Management #Economics
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
-- Barber Conable

#Father #Moving #Democracy
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
-- Barber Conable

#Thinking #High Heels #Decision

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

Barber Conable famous quotes

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