Annuals Quotes - Page 7

• After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

  Cecil Beaton

  Rose, Bed, Twenties

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

  Freya Stark

  Notebook, Pain, Journey

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.137, I.B.Tauris

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• Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

  Janet Flanner

  Years, Alive, Firsts

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• Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Brother, Legs, Firsts

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• A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Years, Data

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.

  Alec Baldwin

  Believe, Differences, Balance

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• The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

  Mark Rutte

  Cost, Economy, Billions

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• Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

  J. P. Morgan

  Upkeep, Yacht, Asks

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Hate, Book

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• In a surprising unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the police cannot search what is on your phone without a warrant. Court observers said a unanimous decision from this court was slightly less likely than Scalia winning the annual Supreme Court wet robe contest.

  Peter Sagal

  Winning, Phones, Decision

  "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. June 27, 2014.

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• There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.

  Noel Tichy

  People, Three, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
  . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, White, Black

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Brother, Ocean, Years

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.73, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Gum, World

  "Remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York". November 8, 1963.

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• Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 2 (1776) See Adam Smith 1

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• I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

  John Adams

  Years, Political, Term Limits

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• This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Weekend, Support, Getting Older

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• I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

  Warren Buffett

  Source, Annual Reports, Company

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• Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Reflection, Simple, Focus

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• Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.

  Joel Salatin

  Men, Animal, Vegetables

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• If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Half, Politics

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• When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

  Warren Buffett

  Want, Looks, Annual Reports

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• One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.

  Peg Bracken

  Piano, Church, Firsts

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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