We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. ~By Marianne Williamson ~
Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. ~By Mark Foley ~
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. ~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. ~By Camille Claudel ~
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 ~
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 ~
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ~By Robert Dale Owen ~
In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs. ~By Michael Steele ~
I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work. ~By Liv Tyler ~
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending. ~By Jeanne Moreau ~
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ~By Vince Cable ~
I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business. ~By Ed Bradley ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ~By John Ruskin ~
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ~By Margaret Mahy ~
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. ~By Anna Quindlen ~
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ~By Daniel Defoe ~
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. ~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves. ~By Johnny Ramone ~
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy. ~By Doc Hastings ~
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. ~By Satish Kumar ~
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 am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
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 ~
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. ~By Armistead Maupin ~
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. ~By Susan Estrich ~
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 ~
The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. ~By Tim Johnson ~
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ~By Baltasar Gracian ~
It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work. ~By Mary McDonnell ~
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ~By Auguste Rodin ~
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. ~By Traian Basescu ~
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. ~By Tanya Tucker ~
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. ~By Brooks Atkinson ~
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. ~By Judy Biggert ~
I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career. ~By Harold Budd ~
I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera. ~By Pola Negri ~
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. ~By Thomas Sowell ~
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. ~By John Boehner ~
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. ~By Emanuel Celler ~
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ~By Huston Smith ~
What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. ~By Steve Buscemi ~
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 ~
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? ~By John Burns ~
I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more. ~By Stone Gossard ~
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise. ~By Craig L. Thomas ~
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. ~By Rudy Rucker ~
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. ~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered. ~By Todd McFarlane ~
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? ~By Jonathan Miller ~
The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. ~By Paul Ryan ~
So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time. ~By Brandi Chastain ~
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see. ~By Sebastian Bach ~
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. ~By James Lovelock ~
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places. ~By Jeff Ament ~
North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending. ~By Mel Watt ~
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ~By Oscar Hammerstein II ~
It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. ~By Christopher Gadsden ~
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family. ~By Jimmy Fallon ~
My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ~By Johnny Isakson ~
Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring. ~By John Boehner ~
We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. ~By Dennis Cardoza ~
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities. ~By Donna Summer ~
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this. ~By Elia Kazan ~
This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ~By Robert Fortune ~
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not. ~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there. ~By Jo Bonner ~
Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications. ~By Dennis Hastert ~
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses. ~By Bill Walsh ~
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. ~By Stephen Spender ~
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. ~By Doris Lessing ~
Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about. ~By Herman Cain ~
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. ~By Herman Melville ~
If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't. ~By Garet Garrett ~
Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public. ~By Amy Grant ~
You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending. ~By Damon Hill ~
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming. ~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. ~By Boz Scaggs ~
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school. ~By Kate Bush ~
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ~By Joel Coen ~
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be. ~By Marsha Blackburn ~
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ~By John Heywood ~
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 ~
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~By Alfred Austin ~
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. ~By Robert Burton ~
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation. ~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. ~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. ~By Bud Selig ~
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. ~By John Thune ~
I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything. ~By Michelle Williams ~
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show. ~By Dwight Yoakam ~
I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. ~By George Grey ~
One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same. ~By Amos Oz ~
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ~By Muhammad Yunus ~
We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked! ~By Dave Matthews ~
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