Goods Quotes
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
Each and all of us must summon to mind the words of Him whom we honor this Easter time: 'When a strong man, armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace'.
To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.
Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.
Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.
When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.
I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.
Global demand for dollars has supplanted demand for manufactured goods and services, resulting in multilateral trade deficits and loss of jobs at home.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
I love baking, it's the most calming thing for me. It's therapeutic, it makes the house smell good, and I get to take the goods to my friends. I do it for other people.
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.