Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

Ken Johnson

He's a real congenial gentlemen, and he's out there trying to spread the Word. It's not every day you see someone doing that.

Alan Brien

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Richard Bove

It would have been difficult for Goldman not to do well. Goldman is more oriented to equities than debt, and stocks rose throughout the period.

Mike Wilson

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

Albert Einstein

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Ambrose Bierce

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Suze Orman

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

Robert A. Heinlein

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Thomas Frank

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Mike Shanahan

We'd sure take him. He's the type of guy you love because he handles himself with so much class. When you have a guy who does that as a rookie being drafted as high as he was, it speaks volumes for the future.

Jim Knowles

We hope he gets drafted on the first day. It's great for us and the Ivy League in general.

Harold Feinstein

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

Dominique Sopo

The state of emergency was simply a political gesture which showed the government prefers a law-and-order response to the problem.

Becky Ault

There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.

William Rochelle

Is there a price that is too expensive for open heart surgery, because that is what we've got here? We've got a terminally ill patient presented in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Salvation Army

We'll be providing emergency needs for the first 72 hours,

Jane Farmer

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

James Hartsfield

All the systems on the space station are operating fine. This is a fairly simple emergency plan.

Neal Cummings

It's not an emergency for them; it's an emergency for every Merchant Marine veteran that's left.

Kevin Bryant

All the emergency patching was done in December. Now is the time to work on big jobs -- to completely re-roof -- if only the skies would clear.

Charles Reade

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Mark Haddon

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Kingsley Amis

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Kingsley Amis

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Frederick Marryat

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Eden Phillpotts

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Nicole Murphy

A lot of people get the impression that it's BS, but there is a lot involved in it. We do play a lot of games, but what we actually do has a lot of structure to it.

Diego Della Valle

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Tom Udall

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

John Paul Stevens

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Philip Larkin

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin

Mark Twain

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Eve Ensler

We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

George Eliot

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

Thelma Underberg

I don't know how many we'll get, but the ones that sign the pledge are the ones who will have the support from the majority of the people in South Dakota, I'm quite sure.

Katheryn Winnick

I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Brandon Sanderson

They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Ben Okri

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

W. S. Gilbert

A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!

Abdul Salam

The results of the referendum were not surprising as the whole process is supervised and protected by the US occupation forces,

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Mason Cooley

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

James Dickey

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Jim Clyburn

We went through a period where we got rid of everything that was old. Everything had to be new

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Cindy Sheehan

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

David Cutcliffe

That's probably the one position that has stayed the same the most over that period of time.

David Greenberg

They can be done in a short period of time,

Edgar Allan Poe

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Richie Ashburn

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.