(218 quotes found)
“I think that the affordable-housing problem in New Jersey has become so dire and become so widespread that we are seeing a broader group of people supporting this. The problem has become broader so the coalition has become broader.”
Annu Mangat
“Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.”
Proverb
“Warren gave a very optimistic prognosis. Some people seem to think there's no trouble just because it hasn't happened yet. If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you're still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that doesn't mean you don't have a serious problem. I would want to address the problem right now. They'd better face it. ”
Charles Munger
“The cause of reform is hurt, not helped, when an activist makes an idiotic suggestion.”
“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.”
Arthur Rubinstein
“I know someone who lives next door to what you would actually call a fairly modest house that just sold for $17 million. There are some very extreme housing price bubbles going on .”
“We don't have to put a house on every vacant lot.”
Andy Dufresne
“We want our houses to look like a community, not like a low-income housing project. Many people don't even realize we are low-income housing.”
Becky Selle
“The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.”
“Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses, and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore, few people owned automobiles, so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.”
Isaac Asimov
