Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

P. J. O'Rourke

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

LeRoy Neiman

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

John C. Calhoun

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Katherine Boo

We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me?

Samuel Johnson

There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Suze Orman

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.

Charles Palliser

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Steve MacFarlane

Mike Hurley has betrayed his union brothers and sisters. Mike now has to live with the fact that his co-workers will forever view him as a scab.

Elizabeth Bowen

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Alec Guinness

Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.

Cao Cao

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Oprah Winfrey

I feel duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.

Bronson Arroyo

I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had done enough around here that they would keep me.

Edwin Muir

We have seen / Good men made evil wrangling with the evil, / Straight minds grown crooked fighting crooked minds. / Our peace betrayed us; we betrayed our peace. / Look at it well. This was the good town once.

Edward Hayes

He's betrayed his family; he's betrayed the people he ? everybody he's ever dealt with his whole life.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charles Spurgeon

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

Bolivar Ceveno

When I moved down here I wasn't making much money, so my brother-in-law suggested I do some iron work.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Lou Ferrigno

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Charles Spurgeon

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Chris Avellone

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

John Eaton

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Louis MacNeice

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

David Ginola

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

Bruce Schneier

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

Bill Gates

See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success

Elizabeth Warren

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

William Shakespeare

Thou canst not say I did it: never shakeThy gory locks at me.

Criss Angel

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.

Ozzy Osbourne

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

Margaret Atwood

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Oscar Wilde

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Stephanie Plowman

There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things.

Ovid

Novelty in all things is charming.

Laurie Fisher

He's got a tremendous work-rate and is relentless at the breakdown.

P. James

My style of play is to attack. Relentless attack.

Herb Sendek

He's an outstanding player. He's a threat to get a double-double every time out. He is especially relentless on the glass.

Theo Rossi

Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.

Geoff Ogilvy

It wasn't relentless waiting, but it was enough to be waiting.

Pete Carroll

Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.

Rumi

Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.