Saving Quotes - Page 9

• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  Vin Diesel

  Real, People, Interesting

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• You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Love, Moving On, Grief

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

  Zac Efron

  Character, Men, Suits

  "Zac on dating & dancing". Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2006.

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• It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Numbers, Midwest

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• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Age, Happy Day

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• The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

  Jim Fowler

  Nature, Thinking, Space

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• I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

  Jim Fowler

  Animal, Thinking, Talking

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• Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Lying, Healing

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• The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Order, Opposites

  Pope Francis (2015). “Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday”, p.18, Image

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• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Motivation, Greatest Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Retirement, Powerful

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• Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

  Bill Frist

  Retirement, Growth, Harness

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• We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Past, Too Late

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• I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Television, Might, France

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• In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

  Richard Gere

  Sister, Brother, Possibility

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• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Smell, Financial

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• We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Learning, Responsibility

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• In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

  Alan Greenspan

  Safety, Gold, Way

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.94, Penguin

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• Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

  William Hague

  Country, People, Common Sense

  William Hague's Speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

  Tom Hanks

  Falling In Love, Men, Waiting

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  Salma Hayek

  Style, Important, Trying

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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• I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Jobs, Ideas

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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• Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Real, Animal, Simple

  "Natalie Imbruglia Speaks Out Against Fur in New PETA Video" by Anne Clark, www.peta.org.uk. September 9, 2010.

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