I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the issue that millennials have is that the return on asset classes such as bonds, cash, are so low now… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that… — Miguel Copy Share Image
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin?… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
I don't have a clue. These things don't bother me. I think about the technical stuff but not how many steps or… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
