Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I love the new technology in terms of giving access to doing more independent work. When I first started out, any film… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the… — Reg Park Copy Share Image
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors'… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The rich does not work for money, but money work for them…, While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life… — John Hardon Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel.… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much… — Edmund Ruffin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation.… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Social media puts reciprocity on steroids because now you can reach more people in more ways to do more things for them… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image