Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers,… — Gemma Malley Copy Share Image
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
God is the source of my supply. His riches flow to me freely, copiously, and abundantly. All my financial and other needs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
