Quotes About Smith

Which reminds me," I said. "You got my pistol?" "Smith." "And Wesson?" "Ben Smith.

Smith believed not that markets make men free but that free men move toward markets. The difference is small but decisive; it is most of what we mean by humanism.

What [Adam] Smith took from [David] Hume's demonstration of the limits of reason, the absurdity of superstition, and the primacy of the passions was not a lesson of Buddhist-Stoical indifference but something more like a sense of Epicurean intensity—if we are living in the material world, then let us make it our material.

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

doctrine of natural liberty. Smith believed that "man's self-interest is God's providence," and held that if government abstained from interfering with free competition, industrial problems would work themselves out and the practical maximum of efficiency would be reached.

New Jersey always surprises him, a state known for its turnpikes that should be known for its coastlines and bayside hamlets.

It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers".... (p. 58)

We've eaten well this evening. That's because we live in the suburbs of London and because our name is Smith.

It almost boosts your self-esteem being screamed at by someone with an English accent.

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.

I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

The guns were Smith & Wesson Sigma .40s, which were modern part-polymer weapons, and expensive. They were both fully loaded.

The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence

And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.

Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie?

and Mma Potokwane remained uncertain whether Mma Ramotswe was testate or intestate.

I ain't seen you in Junto's before, baby,' said Boots Smith. 'I don't go there very often,' she said. There was something faintly contemptuous about the way he said 'baby.' He made it sound like 'bebe,' and it slipped casually, easily, out of his mouth as though it were his own handy, one-word index of women.

King of the road. Aye right, Rosie thought. Depends on how long you've been in the pub and how many drinks

Deep down she approved of his kind of 'an eye for an eye' justice.

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.

If necessary, we can then contact the Smith Kline & French representative near here who can testify I never received another large bottle of sample Eskatrol.

It was Smith who claimed he had received revelations about this premortal state from god-men who allegedly put us here and live on a distant planet near a giant star called Kolob.