Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. — Alfred Marshall 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 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
The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy.… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that… — Rick Perlstein 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
Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do… — Stuart Symington 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
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on… — Barack Obama 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
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
