Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

LeRoy Neiman

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Adam Smith

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Adam Smith

Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.

Katherine Boo

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

Suze Orman

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.

P. J. O'Rourke

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

Xavier Becerra

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Timothy Noah

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Giles Foden

I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.

Gilbert White

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Donald Trump

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

David Bailey

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

William Kelly

With the Giants desperate for a victory, it was an obvious strategy for them to pitch around the Tigers' most potent hitter.

William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Paula McLain

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

Graeme Souness

Michael is desperate to go but with hamstrings we have to be extra cautious.

Vicky McClure

I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.

Jalal Talabani

We are in desperate need of your experience, investment and your moral support for the effort to fight terrorism.

Iliana Holguin

We are in desperate need of immigration reform. I hope the House has seen all the rallies and protests around the nation and remembers the issue is very important and people support a fair immigration reform.

Joe Smith

We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent.

Bobby Cox

I'm still energetic with the game. I've still got the passion for it. When I don't, I'll probably just walk away.

Bill Peters

The pre-season has been long and we've had a lot of practices but the guys are energetic and excited to get the season started,

Mads Mikkelsen

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Mitch Miller

He was energetic and a little spunky. He had a sense of humor.

David Schwimmer

Ive always been pretty energetic.

Maria Bamford

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

Steve Matlock

We've assembled a team of dedicated, energetic people whose experience and enthusiasm for this industry is unparalleled. With these talented leaders in place, La-Z-Boy is in for an exciting ride.

Ronald Reagan

Touch you I must or I'll burst, This morning I'm ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you.

Jeff Calhoun

People are our most important asset, and hiring a friendly, energetic staff for our seasonal jobs is one of our top priorities each year.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Pat Morita

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Mark Hing

Most investors put their portfolios together in a haphazard manner and don't have a sound stock selection strategy. They end up with a patchwork portfolio filled with low-quality securities.

David Schwab

It'd be one thing if he's 25 and filled a demographic niche. But the older the demographic you try to reach, the less risky you want to be.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Sam Williams

I was unfamiliar with many of the agencies, ... The interviews filled in a lot of gaps.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

Gretchen Rubin

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

Janet Malcolm

Malice remains its animating impulse.

Isabel Gillies

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

Henry Grunwald

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Anna Quindlen

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Alfre Woodard

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

Twyla Tharp

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

Eleanor Catton

The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.

Imelda May

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.