The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This… — Michael Almereyda Copy Share Image
A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and… — Austin Ligon Copy Share Image
I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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