Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Corbyn

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

Frances O'Grady

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

Antonis Samaras

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

Gideon Lo

The new austerity policy has created a small concern on the China side and there is a correction in the crude price overnight, so the market sentiment right now is not very good.

William Diamond

They didn't actually think it was going to be achievable, because they were so frightened by the vast scale and stark austerity of the apartment.

Francis Lun

The market will continue to drop as China imposes austerity measures, and we have interest rate (fears) in the U.S.. These two blows means we're in for a correction -- a substantial one.

Arne Duncan

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

Kenneth Fisher

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Tony Ward

What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Rob Reiner

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does.

Richard Dawkins

It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.

Richard Dawkins

Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought a Nobel Laureate ought to be. If you have ever wondered why scientists like Popper, try Medawar's exposition. Actually most Popperian scientists have probably never tried reading anything but Medawar's exposition.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Wyckoff

Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

Amar'e Stoudemire

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Kenneth Chenault

Regular feedback is one of the hardest things to drive through an organization.

Jerry Kelly

He runs on a regular basis, I truly don't know what his capabilities are.

John Servis

He's been able to train on a regular basis, and it's been a long time since he's done that.

Terry Wogan

I'm asked to do 'Strictly Come Dancing' on a regular basis, but I always say no.

Rabih Alameddine

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

Scott Joyner

If we use three in the tournament, we should have three in the regular season.

David Jenkins

I really like these two people. They're iconic. They're archetypal. They're real, regular people, and the play resonates so much because of that.

Eric Esch

I'm just a regular person. I've just got a unique job.

Richard M. Nixon

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Salman Rushdie

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is life itself.

Robert Southey

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Orben

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Robin Quivers

We shouldn't have free speech.