"When you think of everything in terms of just money, then almost nothing is enough. I mean, how much money is enough? Because it's hard to translate money into goods. And I think people, once, I think there's a lot things can believe, and once they start thinking about wealth in terms of money, they lose the idea of enough-ness."

-- Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.”
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.”
“In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.”
“I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'”
“It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.”
“Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.”
“I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me itâ€™s one small piece of art.”

Source : "My City, My Life" Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

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