Saving Quotes - Page 30

• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Virtue, Economy, Parsimony

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

  Arthur Miller

  Personality, Balance, Half

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

  Christopher McDougall

  Ideas, Stranger, Behavior

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Jobs, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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• Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Needs, Use

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• The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Class, San Francisco, Pockets

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• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Cat, Vision

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.

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• Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

  Philip Johnson

  Glasses, House, Worried

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Nfl, People

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• I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

  William Booth

  Soul, Body, Unqualified

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Grace, Enemy

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• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Chuck D

  Creating, Grace, World

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

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• Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

  Steve Carell

  Trying, Cases, Determine

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

  Roy Blunt

  Strong, Proactive, Importance

  "Roy Blunt undergoes medical procedure" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. January 13, 2012.

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• If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

  Bob Corker

  Ceilings, Debt, Achieve

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• President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Cutting, President, Reform

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

  Nick Clooney

  Government, Years, Credit

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• A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

  Diana DeGette

  Creating, Essentials, Cost

  "Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition" by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Gold, Safe, Silver

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Texas, Office

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