Saving Quotes - Page 39

• The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dream, Children, Blood

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.151, Vintage

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• Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

  Francis Quarles

  Mother, Believe, Humble

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.31

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• Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Essentials, May, Kind

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• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Grace, Delight

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Light, Steps

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I want to be the girl in Indiana Jones. I would love to do an adventure movie where I was saving the world. It might be cool if I used a lot of kitchen tools to fight off the enemy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Adventure, Fighting

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• In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Military

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• Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Fall, Garden

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Generosity, Giving

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wise, Kings, Hands

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  Money, People, Wealth

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Factions among yourselves; preferring such
  To offices and honors, as ne'er read
  The elements of saving policy;
  But deeply skilled in all the principles
  That usher to destruction.

  Philip Massinger

  Office, Honor, Principles

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• I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

  George Sanders

  Flower, Men, Winning

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• I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Office, Giving

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Crush, Friday, Sorrow

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• I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

  Diane Keaton

  Believe, Shoes, Style

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

  Robert Plant

  Hard Work, Singing, Granted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Crush, Moving, Home

  "Sen. Warren Introduces Bill On Student Debt". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wnyc.org. May 6, 2014.

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• When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1125, First Avenue Editions

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• As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

  Patti Stanger

  Men, Two, Long

  "The Millionaire Matchmaker Knows How To Love Like a Hot Chick". Interview with Jodi Lipper, Cerina Vincent, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Cds, Goal

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• The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  War, Doctors, Nurse

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• I went to the bank and reviewed my savings, I found out I have all the money I'll ever need. If I die tomorrow.

  Henny Youngman

  Needs, Tomorrow, Found

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Saving Money, Politician, Spending

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.242, Knopf

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