Produce Quotes

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. (Henry James)
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. View quote
John Ruskin
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. View quote
Ralph Nader
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. View quote
Peter De Vries
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. View quote
E. M. Forster
Honest hearts produce honest actions. View quote
Brigham Young
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. View quote
Anthony Trollope
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. View quote
Plutarch
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume. View quote
Winston Churchill
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business. (Henry Ford)
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. View quote
Bill Cosby
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. View quote
Norman Borlaug