Donation Quotes - Page 4

• Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb - it's not a streaming service. But it's a miracle that it's still online and they're able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts.

  David Grubbs

  People, Volunteer, Effort

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  Calvin Ayre

  Basketball, Frustration, Player

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• Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Causes, Profit, Worthwhile

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• When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

  Leroy Hood

  Opportunity, Enormous, Charitable

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• Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

  Dave Barry

  Education, Thinking, Mail

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.11, Rodale

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• Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

  Bennett Cerf

  Food, Cooking, Speech

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• It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Government, Principles, Accepting

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter. I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Perspective, World

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.

  Clara Jeffery

  Mother, Npr, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

  Elton John

  Needs, Internet, Charitable

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• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Money, Inspiration

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.130, 谷月社

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• You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.

  Hillary Clinton

  Views, Vote, Changed

  "Democrats face off in final debate before New Hampshire". www.abc.net.au. February 5, 2016.

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• While campaigns typically purchase mailing lists, it was strange to use donor money to buy a mailing list from the campaign`s own candidate, especially when [Newt] Gingrich could have gifted the mailing list for free as an in-kind donation.

  Chris Hayes

  Campaigns, Use, Lists

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

  Rick Warren

  What Matters, Differences, Long

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Winning, People, Campaigns

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• Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

  Carlos Slim

  Poverty

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• Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

  John Perez

  Mother, Years, Kidneys

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• I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out.

  LeSean McCoy

  Giving, Community, Events

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Independent, Streets

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• People, the common people, can genuinely see what I'm doing. Moreover, people know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. These are the four principles I adopted at the very beginning and continue to use until now. People see this and give me donations.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Hard Work, Simple, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, People, Campaigns

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We've raised a lot of money from small people that - people that give small donations, people that wanna be a part of it and they've been very much left behind. We call them the forgotten man and woman. And we've raised millions of - more than any Republican ever thought possible .

  Donald Trump

  Men, People, Giving

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide, with the conspiracy theory that Clinton Foundation donations somehow went to the Russians to open a Nickel mine in Canada, this is all nonsense. This stuff has been going on for 30 years.

  Thomas Roberts

  Suicide, Years, Play

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Perspective, Documentation

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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