Rate Quotes - Page 40

• If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Discovery, Agony

  8 Copy quote

• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Shy, Gains

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

  Charlie Sheen

  Math, Percent

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

  G. H. Hardy

  Real, Science, Numbers

  57 Copy quote

• For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

  Christopher Bond

  Security Systems, America, Priorities

  7 Copy quote

• The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Song, Failure, Pages

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Clyde Kenneth Hyder (1966). “Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle”, p.64, Syracuse University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

  Talib Kweli

  Creating, Mind, Prison

  4 Copy quote

• There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Literacy, Mortality

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.195, Anchor

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Enough, Economy

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Growth, Return

  15 Copy quote

• Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

  Karl Marx

  Essence, Invisible, Form

  Karl Marx (1977). “Capital: a critique of political economy”, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Routes rate me, not the other way around.

  Andy Cairns

  Climbing, Way, Routes

  7 Copy quote

• At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Doe, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Loyalty, Art, Firsts

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July, 1997.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Spiritual evolution is part of every soul's destiny on Earth, and each soul grows and evolves at a different rate. You are right where you need to be.

  James Van Praagh

  Spiritual, Destiny, Soul

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 10, 2015

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Loss, Ungrateful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the proper training and modeling from their Christian parents. And, from my perspective, a major contributor to this tragic slide is usually a husband and father who is not fully assuming his God-ordained role as spiritual leader.

  Jim George

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  15 Copy quote

• We are being wiped off the face of this earth
  At an extremely alarming rate
  And even more alarming is the fact
  That we are not fighting back

  Tupac Shakur

  Fighting, Earth, Faces

  Song: Words of Wisdom, Album: 2Pacalypse Now

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  School, Simple, Long Ago

  9 Copy quote

• In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Cutting, Cities

  17 Copy quote

• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Mind, Criticism

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Birth Rate, Poverty

  9 Copy quote

• Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.

  Michael Denton

  Past, Numbers, Firsts

  Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

  12 Copy quote

  Show source