Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Smith

Some type of argument ensued. A gun was taken out, and these two people were shot.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

Dave Freudenthal

I've been opposed to it from the beginning, ... The argument is that our gas tax is lower than our surrounding states, so I have a moral obligation to pay 5 cents more a gallon. When I'm watching that little meter spin around, I don't really feel all that morally obligated to pay more.

Eliot Spitzer

These are very senior executives within the Marsh hierarchy, ... Not only was it wrong, it was harmful to the economy ... There is simply no responsible argument in favor of rigging bids, stifling competition and cheating.

Kathy Long

This is a significant loss to our community and to our county, ... We put forth a strong argument to protect our base in Ventura County. It's not over. We still intend to work this issue and present to the (federal) commission that they made a big mistake.

Ian Gunner

The U.S. rate argument is unequivocal. Rates are going to keep on going up for the time being.

Lowell Kalapa

The whole argument was (ethanol) production locally would prop up the sugar industry and keep money in the state. None of that is happening. We're going to send our money out to buy this fuel.

Celine Charveriat

This gives a lie to the French argument that it uses EU subsidies to support its small farmers,

Robert H. Connelly

This Court finds that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution did the founding fathers state that it was permissible to lie in a court of law. This argument is simply without merit,

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Charles Langley

We've seen our gas prices go up more than 25 cents since the first of the year. This is the fastest increase ever in the 10 years we've done the survey during this time of year.

Larry Brown

Two cents really isn't a big deal, it's the principle of it.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Tom Aldrich

The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company.

Tiny Tim

I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

Charles Langley

The only consolation is that prices in North County tend to run about 3 cents cheaper (than the rest of the county).

William Lerach

Why should investors sit passively by and take a couple of cents on a the dollar. This is an extraordinarily powerful tactical weapon.

John Felmy

We can't speak for each of the 170,000 gasoline stations nationwide, ... But it's clear that gasoline prices are up 29 cents a gallon because crude oil prices are up about 29 cents a gallon during the same period.

Chris Mennis

The most temperature-sensitive products are the gas and the heating oil and that's what's moving the market.

Debra Moore

The way gas is today, wooh! ... Maybe you should ride the bus.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

David Carter

The price of gas was still around $2.75 in Murphysboro, and in Carbondale it was $2.99, ... In Carterville it was $3.59, and with my Sam's discount, I'm paying $2.96 before it goes up.

Jeff Lenard

As the price of gas climbs, people's values decline.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Irv DeGraw

What's going on is the market running out of gas at the end of the week.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Jonathan Field

Right now, my going rate is $30 an hour, and for me to start getting back to where I was, I am going to have to raise it to $45. Right now I am in the red. Gas has a lot to do with it ? it is just so high.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Source Unknown

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

Mark Begich

If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.

John Beasley

It doesn't take many nights of temperatures in the mid-to- lower 50s to shut the maturity process down.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Dudley North

It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Matt Birk

I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do,

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Ari Schwartz

Seems as though it takes a violation of peoples' privacy to make people pay attention.

Olivia Mellan

Put a picture in your wallet of what you're wishing for. That way every time you go to pay for something it will be staring you in the face.

Joe Rooney

It was tough. We want to pay them back a little bit.

Harley Viera-Newton

I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

Dale Tallon

I understand. Listen, we have to pay the fiddler. I'll take responsibility.

Linda Perry

I understand why people don't want to do that, but I just think the pay out of doing that is so much greater.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I understand. Wherever Eunice is, don't pay any attention,

Madonna Madonna

This is embarrassing, ... I thought we were all up to date. If we owe, we will pay it (today).

Jack Kingston

This is not going to pay for all prescriptions,

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.

John Murtha

You can't spin this. You've got to have a real solution, ... This is not a war of words, this is a war.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Jason Reitman

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

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

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.