Surplus Quotes

132 quotes by 114 authors

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil… — James Buchan
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. — Nick Cave
When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination. — Wes Fesler
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. — Aneurin Bevan
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if… — Rabindranath Tagore
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and… — John C. Calhoun
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no… — Bill McKibben
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt… — Barack Obama
Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a… — Barack Obama
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the… — Prince Philip
As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people… — Seth Godin
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes,… — Jacob Schiff
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its… — Rabindranath Tagore
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith… — Ambrose Bierce

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