Increase Quotes - Page 2

• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Ed Markey

  Leadership, Years, President

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

  Al Gore

  President, Special, Firsts

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• Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Freedom, Causes

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.433, Transaction Publishers

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• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  Pat Toomey

  Bigs, Spending, Taxes

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• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Snow, Rolling Along, Moral Corruption

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  Sam Francis

  Light, Giving, Darkness

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• In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

  Mike Pence

  Years, Law, Track

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

  Ty Cobb

  Tension, Bases

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

  Robert S. Strauss

  Would Be, Taxes, Sales Tax

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• The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

  Jodi Rell

  Math, College, Years

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• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hilarious, Single

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  Harold Wilson

  Money, Men, Political

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

  Louis L'Amour

  Knowledge, Hopefully, Quantity

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• I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

  Giorgio Armani

  Believe, Artist, Clothes

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• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

  Charles Babbage

  Tools, Wells, Humans

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors, Population, Phantoms

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1966). “The Eye: A Novel”

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• Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Mean Girls, Average, Victory

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• No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

  Thomas Malthus

  Forever, Earth, May

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.9, University of Michigan Press

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• More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

  Elton Gallegly

  Horse, Pregnancy, United States

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• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Pay, Crime

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Doe

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• When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

  Lee Haney

  Goal, Levels, Muscles

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