A Quote by Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

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Happiness Finger Lays Never Pulse

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Adam Smith
Scottish - Economist
June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

Alexander Smith

I've never been able to keep my finger on the pulse of fashion.

Lee Mack

I have never worried about having my finger on the pulse, because I consume music and cinema voraciously, and assumed that meant I would know all of the things my kids were into, even if I didn't like them.

Romesh Ranganathan

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Joseph Conrad

Never stop listening to people at all levels of the company. Be physically out and about so that you always have your finger on the pulse and know, at the ground level, the truth of how people are feeling.

Tricia Griffith

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Pat Benatar

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

William Ralph Inge

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

Gene Mauch

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Shawn Wayans

I think that Jerry Bruckheimer just kind of has his finger on the pulse of what America wants.

Boti Bliss

Sean reaches out between us and takes my wrist. He press his thumb on my pulse. My heartbeat trips and surges against his skin. I'm pinned by his touch, a sort of fearful magic. We stand and stand, and I wait for my pulse against his finger to slow, but it doesn't Finally, he releases my wrist and says," I'll see you on the cliffs tomorrow.

Maggie Stiefvater

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Rajneesh

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.

Tori Amos

In the year and a half that I've been sober, in the comfort of married life, Vogue and I have welcomed our first son and become a family of our own. We are busy, happy, and doing well. My finger is on the pulse and things I never bothered to try to understand make sense to me now.

Spencer Matthews

The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.