Stingy Quotes - Page 2

• Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Ideas, Self

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Elements, Taught

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Selfish, Mirrors, Doe

  "Anna Deavere Smith: Finding a Voice for the Cacophony That Is Los Angeles". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. July 11, 1993.

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• Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

  Ron Fletcher

  Breathing, Alive, Breathe

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• He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.

  Derek Landy

  Cowboy, Pie, Style

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• I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

  Jill Scott

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Silly

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• Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

  Nora Roberts

  Coffee, Views, Three

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.754, Penguin

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• To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Native American, Light, Space

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.85, University of Missouri Press

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• The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Fire, Cooking, West

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Church, Different

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• A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Children, Kissing, Magic

  Harvey Fierstein (1987). “Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex”, Atheneum Books

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• Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

  John Wanamaker

  Flipping A Coin, Coins, Too Much

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Funny, Sarcastic, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-)

  Grey Owl

  Life, Baby, Ducks

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• It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Long, Soul, Body

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.168, Hackett Publishing

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• Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Strong, Healing, Mean

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• It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

  Pedro

  Cost

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• In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mean, Meals, Bullets

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• I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

  Freema Agyeman

  Energy, Needs, Hours

  "Freema Agyeman: 'Life's going so well - I'm on a high'". www.mirror.co.uk. March 15, 2009.

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• Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

  Dr. Seuss

  Uncles, Thinking, Two

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• A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hate, Sleep, Blood

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• America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Country, America, Eight

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• The hats of all eras thrill me. People don't wear them anymore. So when you see an outfit completed by a hat (that's for men too) it's thrilling. Especially if it's a Cloche from the 20's or a "Peter Pan" from the 30's, a Homburg from the 50's, or a Stingy Brim from the 60's. It's time stamping. Today everybody just wants to wear a baseball cap!

  Ruth E. Carter

  Baseball, Men, People

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