Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charlie Pierce

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

Joe Franklin

The whole idea is never to get greedy indoors.

Swiss Proverb

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Bill Gurley

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Steve Jaksa

We won the first two in this series, so now we want to get greedy and get the sweep.

Michael Leunig

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

Mike Trapasso

You go into every series wanting to win the series. But when you win the first two you get greedy and want to go for the sweep. We're pleased with the outcome as a whole.

Mignon McLaughlin

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Chuck D.

The silver lining is that may have compressed the pain.

Lleyton Hewitt

It was weird. He was lining up ready to serve and I was ready to return then he walked off to the chair. I wasn't sure what was going on.

Anthony Sanfilippo

There is a silver lining in all the destruction that happened, and we plan to be a part of it.

John Barbour

We had people lining up outside the store since 4 a.m.,

Steve Goldman

I can't say this is the bottom, but things are lining up better than they have in the past.

LeRoy Cain

I see a pretty straightforward (weather) situation lining up on Monday.

Earl Cook

It could be the silver lining of Katrina,

Mike Pearson

I want to play every snap. I want to start every game. Ephraim wants to, too. Even though I'm disappointed, I've got to look at the silver lining that maybe this is not putting as much strain on my legs. I think I've come back sooner than expected, but you kind of wish you were all the way back.

Matt Raymond

There has to be some sort of silver lining out of this tragedy.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Judith Miller

I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.

Don Bowers

This is serious. By Thursday or Friday, street prices will be around $3 a gallon.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Cherry Hill

The prices are like the Energizer Bunny: They just keep going and going up,

Alvaro Bandeira

There's prospect that iron-ore prices will rise this year.

Peter Luxton

There's no urgency for them to do anything yet as prices are in the range they want.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Charles Caleb Colton

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Charlie Munger

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life

Carter G. Woodson

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

David Talbot

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Janet Yellen

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Dean Koontz

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.