My sense of it is that most people's lives are so scheduled, economically tight and monotonous that ...
SONYA FRIEDMAN She was everything that was untouchable.
SONYA HARTNETT Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
SONYA HARTNETT Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them togeth...
SONYA HARTNETT We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. Peo...
SONYA WALGER In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.
SONYA WATSON If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-an...
SONYA HARTNETT I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of peopl...
SONYA WALGER My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did n...
SONYA HARTNETT I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult c...
SONYA HARTNETT The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look a...
SONYA LEVIEN Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
SONYA LEVIEN Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen f...
SONYA SONES More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children....
SONYA HARTNETT Juggling is the word. I'm a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance....
SONYA WALGER I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we&#...
SONYA WALGER I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was neve...
SONYA WALGER She shoots the ball so well. She can shoot the outside shot, she can shoot the 3. ... Teams would so...
SONYA BERZETT Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I l...
SONYA WALGER Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negativ...
SONYA MORRIS This is my only hobby. I don't do anything else besides this.
SONYA HOIAAS I think Tubby would be wise to hire Kyle for one very, very big project: Free throw shooting!!!!!!!!...
SONYA MORRIS I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.
SONYA HUBER They are hairy and like the ones in the movie arachnophobia.
SONYA BISSMIRE To find your way; get out of your own way and it doesn’t matter how much you weigh
SONYA WITHROW Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded...
SONYA HARTNETT I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though d...
SONYA HARTNETT Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humil...
SONYA HARTNETT I had called Sonny and told him that I wanted to talk to him and get some suggestions about how to r...
SONYA JACKSON 'FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lo...
SONYA WALGER It's a sad fact, but mutual-fund investors really get a raw deal when it comes to taxes.
SONYA MORRIS It's to promote the beauty and power of math. It is beautiful and powerful and how it shouldn't be a...
SONYA MORRIS I don't think the conflicts completely disappear but the transaction certainly helps alleviate some ...
SONYA MORRIS I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because...
SONYA MORRIS If a manager's being inundated with cash, it can make his job difficult. This is an attempt to let t...
SONYA MORRIS The new fund will be playing in different space, but you can make some assumptions about how it migh...
SONYA MORRIS It's not an auspicious time to roll out a small-cap fund, so investors should keep their expectation...
SONYA MORRIS It's a good, solid core fund and has a good, long track record, so all of that provides an extra mea...
SONYA MORRIS He tends to own more foreign stocks than his competitors. That may be part of the explanation behind...
SONYA MORRIS I know this sounds incredibly lame,
but I don't want losing my virginity
to feel like I'm ...
SONYA SONES I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds.
SONYA WALGER You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them somethi...
SONYA WALGER We like to win as a team. It is a big thing, but if we don't win it's not the end.
SONYA HOIAAS 'Lost' is an entity of its own. It's still such a culture touchstone that I think it'...
SONYA WALGER I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back...
SONYA HARTNETT Dear Mornings,I know you hate me but don't you worry because I hate you too!
SONYA WATSON We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was ...
SONYA HARTNETT I've had coaches say they spent all week practicing just on how to play her.
SONYA BERZETT We have made an adjustment to the product to help protect users.
SONYA BORALV I can't stand the 'I don't care' attitude from children, the 'I don't have time' attitude from paren...
SONYA HARRIS Really knowing your guests will really help with that. If they are friends or family, then you'll ki...
SONYA JENNINGS If he was out here, it would be the same kind of party. Same kind of celebration, so I want to keep ...
SONYA PACE He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, othe...
SONYA HARTNETT The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's con...
SONYA RENEE TAYLOR Women deserve better than propaganda and lies to get into panties. Propaganda and lies to get into o...
SONYA RENEE TAYLOR Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar c...
SONYA RENEE TAYLOR OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparentl...
NAT FRIEDMAN We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions ...
NAT FRIEDMAN This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
NAT FRIEDMAN Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, a...
NAT FRIEDMAN Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators...
NAT FRIEDMAN We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the nea...
NAT FRIEDMAN There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Li...
NAT FRIEDMAN It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger ...
NAT FRIEDMAN A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
NAT FRIEDMAN When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
DAVID FRIEDMAN Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN They would need that to compare to the sample to make sure it doesn't belong to the victim.
ALAN FRIEDMAN When you have a badly-written law and a bad policy, it creates execution problems and implementation...
ALAN FRIEDMAN [That means even if you can afford one of these gems, you might have to wait.] A one carat pink can ...
ALAN FRIEDMAN These people were laughing at the system, were terrorizing law abiding citizens, were forcing commun...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Agnelli was a man of the old school. He grew up in an environment where politicians and Fiat could i...
ALAN FRIEDMAN Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Just having the industrial zones is a step forward. We would've liked to see more areas included. De...
ADAM FRIEDMAN It was the perfect choice because all the parts are written for kids and teens.
ADAM FRIEDMAN Unlike other programs, our cast is always made up of the students involved in the show. We don?t bri...
ADAM FRIEDMAN I want to make sure the children have as professional an experience as possible. Preparing them for ...
ADAM FRIEDMAN So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilitie...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by sma...
DAVID FRIEDMAN Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Only in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”

If there was an award for understatement, I th...
C.S. FRIEDMAN The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
C.S. FRIEDMAN Life is the messy bits.
LISE FRIEDMAN The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the ma...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th...
MILTON FRIEDMAN A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Und...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
SHELBY FRIEDMAN Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devote...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!
SHELBY FRIEDMAN There was a time when we the U.S. had completely unrestricted immigration, when anybody could come t...
MILTON FRIEDMAN What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
MILTON FRIEDMAN What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a respon...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
MILTON FRIEDMAN Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
KINKY FRIEDMAN An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls ...
JACLYN FRIEDMAN The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literatur...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
KINKY FRIEDMAN We definitely are a supporter of lowering corporate income tax and managing through the reprehension...
ADENA FRIEDMAN Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wa...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
KINKY FRIEDMAN When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Whatever you may be thinking when you apply for a job today, you can be sure the employer is asking ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same g...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whol...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more pl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabl...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply c...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optim...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online cours...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil co...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative cu...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always e...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out i...
DAVID FRIEDMAN So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achieveme...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN There's no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
KINKY FRIEDMAN I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, b...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.
KINKY FRIEDMAN How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
KINKY FRIEDMAN I don't apologize to people with an agenda.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
KINKY FRIEDMAN May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me an...
KINKY FRIEDMAN Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
KINKY FRIEDMAN If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co...
KINKY FRIEDMAN I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never ...
KINKY FRIEDMAN The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Starting a new job can be nerve-racking , but it's also exciting. You're embarking on a new ...
ADENA FRIEDMAN The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
MILTON FRIEDMAN The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It sho...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mis...
MILTON FRIEDMAN History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...
MILTON FRIEDMAN I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselv...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...
MILTON FRIEDMAN If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shorta...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Inflation is taxation without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the mome...
RACHELLE FRIEDMAN We're counting on him to be a productive member of our bullpen.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We'll continue talks with [them]. This doesn't necessarily shut the door on their future with the Ra...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're happy to come to terms with Toby. He's an instrumental part of what we're trying to do as we d...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We're getting really close to obtaining the support we need.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN He understands what it takes to make a team successful.
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Convoys are the scariest and most high-risk activity a soldier can participate in. You never know wh...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN As plastic surgeons, we use our general surgery training to help treat initial trauma in the field t...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs
ANDREW FRIEDMAN We were seeing situations when, even after they reported hazardous conditions and violations were is...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN This is a classic change-of-scenery trade involving two former No. 1 draft picks that are still youn...
ANDREW FRIEDMAN Reed: "I owe you big-time, Ronnie."
Ronnie: "You've been my best friend since kindergarten, Ree...
ROBIN FRIEDMAN There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that yo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Glo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
KINKY FRIEDMAN The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'...
KINKY FRIEDMAN