Saving Quotes - Page 31

• Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

  Britt Ekland

  Regret, Father, Thinking

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• If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

  William Foege

  Thank You, Disease, Thanks

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• I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

  Melinda Gates

  Government, Differences, United States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

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• He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Peace, Paris, Special

  Song: He Went To Paris, 1973

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• In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

  Frank Zappa

  Dream, Peace, Special

  Song: Son Of Orange County

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• Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

  Felix Rohatyn

  New York, Tired, Persistence

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Self, Years

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• Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

  Paul David Tripp

  Lying, Self, Law

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• I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Army, Dumb

  Song: Saved

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• Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

  Jim Fowler

  Ties, World, Welfare

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• I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

  Mark Feuerstein

  Half, Quiet, Wonder

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• I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

  Christina Hendricks

  Girl, Running, Self

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

  John Hoeven

  Creating, Reform, Looks

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• My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Thinking, Trying, Months

  "Kathryn Minshew: Helping Women Find Their Muse". Interview with Nusha Balyan, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Justice, Survivor, Stories

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Banking Crisis, People

  "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.

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• Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Heaven, Faithful, Earth

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• As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Thinking, Long

  "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou". Interview With Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

  Jacques Pepin

  Simple, Pbs, Florida

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, Iraq

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Doe

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