Pocketbooks Quotes - Page 2

• A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.

  Thomas Dreier

  Beauty, Knowledge, Men

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• I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Lying, Silly

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• Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

  Robert Ringer

  Soul, Action, Mental Health

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.261, M. Evans

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• Well, it's great to have a Sony Records or a BMG or a Warner Brothers pocketbook. Money is a challenge when you're funding your own start-up costs and everything. But I feel like it's doable. You just have to be very careful.

  Pam Tillis

  Brother, Challenges, Cost

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• When you're on a sleeper at night, take your pocketbook and put it in a sock under your pillow. That way, the next morning you won't forget your pocketbook cause you'll be looking for your sock.

  Ping Bodie

  Travel, Morning, Night

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• The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

  George Seldes

  Heart, Media, Deceit

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• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  Bailey White

  Flower, Vases, Might

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving, Socialism, Rich

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• People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, People, Three

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• Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Trust In God, Stewardship

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• The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Self, Numbers

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• Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.

  Lee Wulff

  Lying, Lakes, Sea

  Lee Wulff (1989). “The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures”, Dutton Adult

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• I think my interest in risk is pretty high, a lot higher than I think a lot of other people who are just looking for something to kind of define themselves, give them a set of fingerprints, and certainly is better for the pocketbook. For me it's always about trying new things and wanting to explore something else and something new of myself and of actors I really like.

  David Gordon Green

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

  Francis James Grimke

  Men, Tests

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• Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

  Mike Lee

  Differences, Way, Coming Out

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• The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.

  Dan Quayle

  Cutting, Government, People

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

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