Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

Rick Santorum

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit,

Tony Robbins

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

Tony Dungy

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Victor Davis Hanson

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

Stanford Moore

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

Tom Leykis

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.

Stevie Wonder

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Ramsey Clark

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

Scott Aukerman

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

Michelle Malkin

The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

Michelle Obama

The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.

Seth Godin

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

John Milton

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

Theodore Roosevelt

I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

Theodore Roosevelt

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

John Shadegg

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

John Selden

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Peter Beard

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

John Ruskin

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

Maajid Nawaz

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

Lots of businesses already have domestic-partner benefits and those are already resolved. What business groups need is stability; they need to know what the law is and move on.

Leading employers in the U.S. remain committed to helping their employees with health benefits coverage and programs to improve their health and the health of their families. These employers know that one of the most important ways to control costs is to help employees and their families get and stay healthy.

Henry Paulson

Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.

Many of these people have never, ever had a livable wage. It will also give them benefits like paid time off and those kinds of things that most people look for in a job.

Many companies are looking to roll back benefits, and benefits for retirees are at the top of the list. This decision says that while they may be first on the list, they may not be easy to cut.

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

Soft dollars have potential benefits and downsides for investors. The commission has been working to limit the downsides while preserving the benefits, one of them being research.

Tony Wilson

So it's kind of like, trust us, we're going to spend all this money, we're going to revolutionize the network and there are going to be great benefits but you're going to have to wait three years before you get them.