Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions. " Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.
Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.
Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
I always feel very grateful when someone offers me a job.
History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.
If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.