Famous Quotes & Sayings

People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can't revive. The reason is that every recovery since 1945 has begun with a higher, and higher level of debt. The debt is so high now, that since 2008 we've been in what I call, debt deflation.

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

Heather Mills

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Martin Sheen

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Frederick William Borden

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

George Foreman

The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

This has nothing to do with B.J., because I think he's made the recovery and will be fine,

Mariska Hargitay

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

Max Baucus

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.

Maya Angelou

But still, like air, I'll rise

Right now, the large-cap recovery is very strong, while small-caps are vulnerable.

You're supposed to see recovery signs and they really are right on cue.

Ronald Reagan

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Romano Prodi

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Stuart Rose

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

Peter Schiff

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

Sean Hannity

Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.

Shinzo Abe

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

Marc Morial

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Sharon Salzberg

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

Tatum O'Neal

I've triumphed over addiction.

Robert Boyle

I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

Tammy Bruce

When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Thomas Merton

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

Steve-O

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

Sigmund Freud

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

Shakira

I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

Joseph Crowley

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.