Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Stan Hyman

We accomplished what we wanted to come down here with the split, but when you sweep the first day you get a little greedy and want to get at least one of the two (contests) the next day.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Aaron Swartz

Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

Charles Horton Cooley

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Craig Davis

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Nick Hays

There are copies and copies of copies. We're sorting through it.

Glenn Miller

We started 14 months ago. The original edition was 10,000 copies and we're now up to 70,000.

Caroline Corr

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Al Martin

They have 40 copies of one thing and nothing of the other five, so instead of five good discs they have a lot of one.

Nicholas Sparks

As for writing the second novel, the pressure was immense, but hey, what's life without a little challenge? I just sat down and forced myself to write and in the end, it sold as many copies as the first novel did.

Ruud Lubbers

a young Pakistani who works there (Urenco) and there are indications that he is doing things he shouldn't. He takes home information and copies it. And we have to sort that out. And maybe deny him entry from now on.

Michala Alexander

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.

John M. Ford

People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others.

Mark Rein

Are they going to sell used copies of Microsoft Office -- and if not, why not?, ... Why is that Microsoft ( Research ) has no objections to you reselling a copy of 'Halo,' but if you try it with Office, they'll come down on you like a ton on bricks?

Jim Hall

They refused to participate at all, even though we requested them.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Bob Melvin

I've never said anything disparaging about Wally Backman and I refuse to do so now.

Al Goldstein

I refuse to be silenced.

Ben Harper

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Donald Glover

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

Plato

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Lisa Marie Presley

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

Marissa Mayer

I refuse to be stereotyped.