Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Fletcher

Five years from now Medicaid will consume 20 percent of the state's budget if we don't make changes,

Annie Besant

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

Barry McGuire

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

Ernesto Zedillo

Even though we have to cut our budget in oother places, we will spend what it takes to repair the damage, ... Acapulco is not destroyed. It will recover.

Eventually, if we raise the caps so much, we're going to have to raise the office budgets, which we just did.

Don Davis

Even my own buddies around the league tell me, 'Hey, you know what? I'm rooting for you, but I really don't want you to win.

Bernie Sanders

For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

Turn-outs run $2,500 to $3,000 each. If a fire department has 10 volunteers, every five years they must budget for a $30,000 expenditure, just to keep up with this code alone.

To punish villages by cutting budgets if they are led by Islamic leaders, especially if those villages are led by Islamic Movement activists, is fascist.

Amanda Lamb

We were en route but we got horribly lost, ... We were on the outskirts of Budapest for about an hour. We just couldn't find our way into the centre. I wasn't navigating, it was a man so he was completely useless.

Kent Conrad

While this year's deficit will be lower than last year's record shortfall, the improvement is likely to be short-lived. Declarations of victory over budget deficits only distract from the disturbing long-term budget outlook,

Frank Beamer

You better be exactly what you are and be consistent with it. And that's what Bud does.

Jim Wright

You can't cut 22 percent out of anyone's budget and still maintain quality programs.

We've gutted the parks division over the last 12 years. Our operating budget was higher in 1994 than it is today.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

This new budget clearly shows Bush's lack of commitment to the businesses where most Americans work. I expect it to have a significant negative impact on legitimately small, women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

We should commit resources, as we did to conquer polio in the fifties. We could quadruple the Alzheimer's budget and not saturate all clinical trials and possible targets. If we don't there will be hell to pay in twenty years.

We are very pleased that the money has been placed back in the budget and we can continue to patrol the parkways with no expense to our taxpayers.

We are going to defeat you in the budget process and debate process until you cry uncle,

We are going to be facing some major choices as we go through the budget process,

Ron Wilson

What's even worse is we won't be back here for three years, so the Bruin fans and all his buddies won't see him for three years here in Boston. That's a shame.

What I would love to see is getting rid of silos and pooling budgets so we can do what the individual client needs.

Helen Zille

We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.

We want to nip this in the bud so that Chuck's directive can be changed. We are meeting with the Pueblo Lodging Association next week and we want to make sure we do everything we can to maintain our relationship with CHSAA.

Together with the Weinstein Company we have been able to show these designers' passion for creativity and incredible talent to an ever-growing audience. We can't wait to get back out there and give another crop of budding designers the opportunity of a lifetime.

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we don't have to pay for all of those things so we can save that money.

John Keats

To set budding more, / And still more, later flowers for the bees, / Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.

The public health component of a governor's budget is discretionary. It is always the public health dollars that get squeezed.

The reason for the motion is council wants it documented in the budget for auditing reasons.

Bob Riley

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

There is some reason to be surprised that it's this much. The Congressional Budget Office had estimated the defense department would need $85bn and that was with no drawdown in troops.

There is no reason for exuberance because of the budget. It is only the foreign money which is pushing the market up.