Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
~By Saint Augustine ~
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
~By Douglas Horton ~
The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.
~By John Boehner ~
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
~By Brian Tracy ~
But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.
~By Pia Zadora ~
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
~By Lusia Strus ~
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.
~By Mike Pence ~
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.
~By Fulton Oursler ~
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.
~By Michael Reagan ~
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
~By Gary Johnson ~
The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
~By Gerry Beckley ~
I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
~By Colin Firth ~
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
~By Tom Hooper ~
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
~By Tom Wilson ~
Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.
~By Franco Nero ~
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
~By Robert C. Gallagher ~
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
~By Craig Armstrong ~
Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
~By Ben Affleck ~
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
~By George Burns ~
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
~By David E. Price ~
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
~By George H. W. Bush ~
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
~By Henrietta Szold ~
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
~By Giulio Douhet ~
Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
~By Charles Adams ~
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
~By Bobby Womack ~
Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty.
~By John Boehner ~
Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
~By Pat Brown ~
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
~By Anne Northup ~
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
~By Paul Ryan ~
I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.
~By Rupert Grint ~
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.
~By Doug Elmendorf ~
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
~By Michael Berryman ~
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
~By Clare Short ~
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
~By Anatoli Boukreev ~
Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.
~By Robert McChesney ~
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
~By Haley Barbour ~
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
~By Gene Tierney ~
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
~By Eric Cantor ~
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
~By John Updike ~
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
~By Kate Bush ~
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
~By Jim Cooper ~
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
~By Michael Korda ~
I think racing and riding are two different elements of cycling. You either want to or not depending on what you want to get out of it.
~By Mark-Paul Gosselaar ~
It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
~By Karel Capek ~
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
~By Henry Lawson ~
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
~By Chaka Fattah ~
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.
~By Melinda Clarke ~
The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment.
~By Dave Rowntree ~
Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.
~By Alfred Jarry ~
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
~By George Santayana ~
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.
~By Joanna Lumley ~
I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
~By Karen Duffy ~
Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.
~By Compay Segundo ~
In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
~By John Walters ~
I don't believe in happy endings.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
~By Eric Cantor ~
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
~By Northrop Frye ~
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
~By Chris Christie ~
We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
~By Bernard Ebbers ~
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
~By Mike Ross ~
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
~By Lee Child ~
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
~By Kit Williams ~
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
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