Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Rick Santorum

I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already.

Ernestine Rose

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

Fabrice Luchini

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

Matt Martin

We did what we had to do to finish the race and earn points. Now we have to start thinking about VIR. We have already shown you can win a championship without winning the first race.

Gary Pruitt

We are having a good fourth quarter, which has led us to raise our estimates of full-year earnings for 1999.

William Garrison

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch- and I will be heard!

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We still have two weeks of earnings warnings ahead.

Terry Crews

We still expect our greatest earnings growth during the second and third quarters. The fourth quarter is expected to be a loss, but it will not be as large of a loss as last year.

This would be earnings enhancing from the start.

The prospects for tech did not suddenly deteriorate. In fact, tech earnings have been very good.

You look at the way that Joe has that team playing and you know what his influence is. They fight and work and make you earn everything that you get.

To be able to post another double-digit gain is pretty impressive. This would be the 10th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth.

We want to be even more relevant. We want to be here providing services that earn the tax dollars.

Lauren Weisberger

If I could figure out a way to earn a living while traveling for the rest of my life, well, I think that'd be a dream come true.

Colin Trevorrow

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

Chad Harbach

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

Kenneth Oppel

Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.

Damien Rice

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

Norman Foster

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

We played well defensively. We weren't going to give up any easy shots. We wanted to make them earn it every possession.

We played well, and we played with intensity. We took away their strengths and what they like to do. We made them earn their baskets. Offensively, we got shots. We just didn't make enough of them.

Bill Clinton

We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn..

We're at the end of the quarter so there is some window dressing. The focus is now totally on earnings, and this earnings season looks as though it will be strong if not stronger than last quarter.

We're excited about the ones we've got going because it was a heck of a regional. These guys have earned that right.

We're ecstatic. We lost four in a row at the end of the regular season and we've done an outstanding job to win two straight games here to earn the right to play Gonzaga. And . ... . we . ... . are . ... . excited.

Amity Shlaes

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.

Ann Rutherford

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

Charlie White

When you win the Olympics, you hope that the medal that you get, that weight makes it feel like you really earned something.

Craig T. Nelson

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there.