Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cox

Eighty-five percent of our current operating budget is dedicated to personnel expenditures.

After the third budget and into the third (year), and (they're) far, far short of meeting that promise.

Wayne Allard

Despite an incredibly tight budget year, we still managed to meet our obligations to provide local governments with this critical funding.

The numbers are here. The budget is credible.

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.

That is, indeed, the true budget we have today,

Jeff Bingaman

It's clear that the president and his advisers share our concern about the prospects of losing our competitive edge in the global economy. It's my hope that the administration's budget reflects this concern by making a significant increase in our nation's investment in science and technology.

Rick Astley

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

It's a lot easier budget year than we thought. For the time being, it looks like an improved fiscal outlook.

Nhat Hanh

One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

Nhat Hanh

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Nhat Hanh

Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha.

Tao Lin

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Tara Brach

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

Pema Chodron

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Pema Chodron

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Pankaj Mishra

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Pankaj Mishra

I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.

the long-run budget impact, despite all the screaming and hand-wringing about this...is really very small, very modest.

John Miller

All the money in the budget will be spent here.

Jack O'Connell

At a time when our nation should be investing in the future of our students as never before, this budget cuts education funding for the first time in a decade.

All of us are facing the budget pinch. We had to cut our materials. We had to cut it three percent last year. We really don't know what's going to happen this year.

They have been very conscious to keep the budget in check.

They have a limited budget and have to manage funds very carefully.

This first year will need to be lean and mean ? we will be on an extremely streamlined budget and won't have as many programs in the beginning.

William Shakespeare

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

This budget will have the most significant tax cut package in over a decade. Certainly, we think that's good news.

This budget reconciliation is a farce. What they want to do is cut our programs so they can put together the money for the tax cut they want to do next.

This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive. Heavy concessions have been granted to the corporate sector and spending on education and healthcare has not been increased to the expected levels.

This is about preventing a dangerous budget from passing, not getting (legislative) seats.

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.

They're two of my buddies from touring Asia.

Tom Glavine

It stinks that we lost and it stinks that one of our buddies got hurt.