#wit

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bail #christmas #colleague #does #else

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#apples #base #bumper #cannot #colonial

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. ↗

— James Lafferty

#half #leaves #picture #story #untold

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#determined #fighter #going #i #out

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour. ↗

— Skylar Laine

#boots #guitar #i #live #phone

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#despair #schizophrenia #understanding #understood #without

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#empty #history #philosophy #science #without

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members. ↗

— Greg Lake

#become #identity #loose #members #number

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#always #attitude #attitudes #changed #changing