Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

William Kamkwamba

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

Clive Thompson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Emmitt Smith

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Elizabeth Warren

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Chen Shui-bian

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Charles Pena

The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrorism. They're going to have to fight the social cuts without bargaining on defense.

Pat Donahue

The overall goal is to use wood resources and technology to drive economic development around housing. It's a high-quality affordable housing option that could drive as much as 90 percent of the labor costs out of a traditionally built house.

Jerry Grey

The payload characteristics are certain to be much different than those of the CEV. Keeping budget control on the expenditure of six units on each flight might turn out to be an issue.

Alex Glass

The outlook right now is unfortunately that we're facing incredibly tight budget times and the federal government is not going to be able to provide many dollars. That said, the projects that do get priority are the projects that entire communities get behind, and (that) have broad-based support.

Courtney Gains

Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

Douglas Wilson

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

Steve Gill

We probably won't see the marketing budgets of the late 1990s in quite the same way again, but the slowly recovering economy has made many clients think more about the value of their public relations as part of the marketing mix.

Carolyn Tinkle

We probably did $80,000 in renovation work on a budget of $30,000. The rest was donated, in money and labor.

David Harsanyi

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

Joel Sawyer

When Dan Cooper puts together a budget that shatters state spending records, I can understand why he's sensitive about someone looking over his shoulder. But Gov. Sanford's job is to look out for the hard-working taxpayers of this state, and that's always going to be his top priority.

Ronnie Arnold

When 80 percent to 85 percent of the money is already directed toward salaries, you can't make any real headway in your budget without looking at personnel.

Christopher Dixon

The overall sector is being destroyed in the wake of Omnicom.

David H. Murdock

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

Anthony Gardner

We are not opposed to the rebuilding moving forward. We just don't want it to move forward and the physical remains of the footprints to be destroyed in that process.

Lech Walesa

My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.

Waylon Jennings

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Lee Baerlocher

Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such as) letters or personal papers, are shredded. We keep them as long as we can and we run things past the historical society before they are destroyed to rule out historical significance.

Louis Malle

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Drew Goddard

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Maria Montessori

... nothing is created or destroyed in nature ...

Bob Nelson

We pretty much provide most if not all of the kinds of jobs they are going to need in slot parlors.

Alan Cohen

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

Alan Cohen

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Dick Cheney

People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Dick Cheney

You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a moment like this. You have things that you have to make happen. And you don't have time for the emotional reaction that might otherwise occur if somebody was just sitting there watching these events unfold and had no responsibilities.

Dick Cheney

You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.

Dick Cheney

My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.

Dick Cheney

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

Arthur C. Nielsen

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

Vladimir Kramnik

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

Brett Favre

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

Gabriel Byrne

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

Coolio

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Paul Anka

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

Susan Isaacs

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

Virat Kohli

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Tatum O'Neal

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Philip Dick

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Ahn Soo

In the relay, what matters most is which team skates more consistently.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

D. James

We won. That's all that matters to me.

Paul Taylor

Price matters in this market. This is an increasingly price-sensitive consumer.

Edwin Lau

Matters have got to a terrible state in a very quick time.

Idris Jala

It allows you to raise matters in an independent and unbiased manner.

George Bernard Shaw

Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.

Austin O'Malley

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Stephen Harper

If you want your taxes to go down, you have to vote for it.

Laurie Notaro

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Christine Pelosi

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

George W. Bush

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.