Ralph B. Perry quote: "The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good."

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.
RALPH B. PERRY

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the ...
RALPH B. PERRY

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in n...
RALPH B. PERRY

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as th...
RALPH B. PERRY

If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel," it is not merely because evil deeds may be perfor...
RALPH B. PERRY

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in n...
RALPH BARTON PERRY

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his...
RALPH BARTON PERRY

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy wh...
--RALPH BARTON PERRY

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.
TYLER PERRY

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.
KATY PERRY

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
PERRY CHRISTIE

I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the...
TYLER PERRY

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he migh...
RACHEL PERRY

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
RACHEL PERRY

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big...
RACHEL PERRY

I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
RACHEL PERRY

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the wa...
RACHEL PERRY

Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
RACHEL PERRY

If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
RACHEL PERRY

When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em ...
RACHEL PERRY

I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
RACHEL PERRY

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY

I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broa...
KATY PERRY

You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!
KATY PERRY

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
PERRY CHRISTIE

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and del...
KATY PERRY

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup an...
KATY PERRY

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.
RICK PERRY

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY

I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that...
ANNE PERRY

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it s...
ANNE PERRY

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
ANNE PERRY

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well pr...
ANNE PERRY

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boob...
KATY PERRY

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always &...
TYLER PERRY

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main p...
KATY PERRY

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But th...
RICK PERRY

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the m...
WILLIAM PERRY

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amo...
TYLER PERRY

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.
TYLER PERRY

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If ...
TYLER PERRY

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY

That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home....
MATTHEW PERRY

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.
PERRY PAXTON

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
GAYLORD PERRY

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air...
RICK PERRY

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But...
KATY PERRY

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner...
JOE PERRY

When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on m...
LUKE PERRY

Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm lo...
TYLER PERRY

Maybe you could put it out there that I don't have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind ...
JOE PERRY

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, ...
KATY PERRY

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for ...
FRED PERRY

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind ...
KATY PERRY

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don&...
TYLER PERRY

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ab...
RICK PERRY

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratif...
THOMAS PERRY

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the p...
TYLER PERRY

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play toge...
JOE PERRY

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot ...
JOE PERRY

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time a...
JOE PERRY

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a t...
JOE PERRY

Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
JOE PERRY

It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, a...
JOE PERRY

The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every priva...
RICK PERRY

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vuln...
KATY PERRY

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Ea...
TYLER PERRY

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
TYLER PERRY

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor...
TYLER PERRY

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who g...
KATY PERRY

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is...
KATY PERRY

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glas...
PERRY COMO

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the...
RICK PERRY

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo...
TYLER PERRY

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
MATTHEW PERRY

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
RICK PERRY

I definitely do not like Halloween. I don't like masks, creepy clowns, dark things, goblins or w...
TYLER PERRY

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never...
KATY PERRY

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how t...
TYLER PERRY

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and ...
RICK PERRY

After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That&#...
JOE PERRY

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.
KATY PERRY

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
KATY PERRY

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape ...
THOMAS PERRY

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people...
TYLER PERRY

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely re...
PERRY ANDERSON

The Court could decide the Bush appeal is moot. The Court is always concerned about overstepping its...
BARBARA PERRY

This award is long overdue.
BARBARA PERRY

They've worked tirelessly for neighborhoods and preservation interests in both the public and privat...
BARBARA PERRY

And she has no qualms about letting someone know if they are not maintaining their property to the s...
BARBARA PERRY

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, green...
BARBARA PERRY

As a result, the corner is now stable and the house is an attractive asset to the neighborhood and o...
BARBARA PERRY

I know that these players would like to be here. But this sort of stuff happens with injuries and a ...
BARBARA PERRY

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the c...
KATY PERRY

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

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The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

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