Appropriated Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didnâ€™t know that money… — Will Rogers
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about… — Ian Fleming
Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the… — Solomon Ortiz
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and… — A. Philip Randolph
..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for oneâ€™s own use - need not be… — Bell Hooks
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of… — Bell Hooks
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per… — Ha-Joon Chang
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable… — Noam Chomsky
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order to… — Neil MacGregor
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what… — Bobby Scott
But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only… — Asa Gray
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before… — Robert Walpole
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup
Poe, R-Humble, said his Pakistan Foreign Aid Accountability Act would require the State Department to certify to Congress that Pakistan wasn't giving a sanctuary to… — Richard Dunham

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