Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

David Graeber

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

David Graeber

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

David Graeber

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

Brunello Cucinelli

I've always had an aversion to debt.

Elissa Buie

When you take on debt, you increase your risk, but you also increase your return,

Wayne Abernathy

Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.

Benjamin Franklin

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Benjamin Franklin

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

David Allen

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

Michael Specter

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.

Laura Marriott

We are seeing applications merged into a single device. They are getting easier to use and more streamlined.

Ted Snyder

We struggled at times scoring. We made that extra pass down the stretch for easier shots.

Alex Williams

We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.

Louis C. K.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

Mark Recchi

We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves.

Brad Soderberg

Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him.

Brian Durocher

We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.

John Lilly

When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Paul Brennan

We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables,

Roman Romanenko

Throughout the history of spaceflight and the study of effects of exploring to human, space environment to human body, we have accumulated enough knowledge to be able to move over to the next step: getting ready for interplanetary missions, for interplanetary exploration.

Iris Chenault

She's tired today because she didn't get enough sleep without the machine. That's one of the side effects you don't get a good night's sleep.

Jim Egan

We really don't know what population effects have in terms of water quality trends.

Jason Ricci

I was involved in Habitat for Humanity when I was in high school and I think it's an incredible program. I've seen firsthand the effects it has on people.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything that was going on between his teeth and hand, but he battled out there. He did a nice job.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Wendy Abrams

We are prepared to have about 200 travelers stay with us overnight because of these problems.

Brian Chesky

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Dan Evans

We've been very fortunate. It was an overnight success for us.

Matt Smith

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

Tony George

He should be fine. They'll keep him overnight (Sunday) for observation.

Alexander Downer

Reports that I've had in now overnight are, I must admit, pretty bad,

Nancy Brook

He would go on overnight canoe trips with his friends as long as he could.

James Daly

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Gary Hines

It was never portrayed from day one that this would be an overnight phenomenon,

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

David McCullough

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

David Graeber

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Byron Katie

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

David Sedaris

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

Carl Sagan

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Kurt Vonnegut

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

David Ricardo

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

David Hume

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Barney Frank

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents.

Bertolt Brecht

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.