Shipping Quotes

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Bert Murray

Used, Inevitable, Taxes

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Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Joel Spolsky

Important, Products, Features

"The Duct Tape Programmer" by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. September 23, 2009.

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Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

Craig Ferguson

Christmas, Blow, Numbers

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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.

Freya Stark

Eye, Impact, Blue

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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.

Seth Godin

Art, Winning, Advice

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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

Andy Rooney

People, Doe, Cost

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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

Archibald MacLeish

Peace, Oil, Gold

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My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Samuel West

Ambition, Forecasts

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Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Barbara Amiel

Europe, Energy, Raw Materials

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By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

John Dryden

Art, Nature, Tails

'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers.

Candice Accola

Passion, Community, Ships

"Candice Accola dishes on Steroline, Klaroline, and tonight's emotional 'Vampire Diaries' funeral" by Shaunna Murphy, www.mtv.com. February 19, 2015.

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I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

Jonathan Adler

Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Jim Ryun

Energy, Use, Homeland Security

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Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

Ward Cunningham

Engineering, Organization, Long

"The WyCash Portfolio Management System". OOPSLA conference, c2.com. March 26, 1992.

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To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

Kelly Miller

Europe, America, Different

Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Walter Raleigh

Sea, England, Fortification

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I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.

Mitt Romney

Jobs, Thinking, People

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Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

Barack Obama

Jobs, United States, Investing

Source: genius.com

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The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Paris, Saint, Towers

Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

Barack Obama

Jobs, Familiar, Company

Source: genius.com

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Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.

Sam Champion

Alaska, Oil, Hunters

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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People on welfare are getting a price cut to join Amazon Prime, which means you're paying for that. So the food stamp recipients will now get Amazon Prime for $5.99 a month. Free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, which means that these people have to have internet accessibility.

Rush Limbaugh

Mean, Cutting, People

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

Richelle Mead

Wall, Couple, Spring

Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

Timothy Egan

Running, Believe, Loss

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One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

Mary Norris

Jobs, Singing, Gardening

Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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