Fiscal Austerity Quotes & Sayings

Because someday, when your life slows down, you're going to look at all the great things you've done and the people you've touched and you might go down as a hero. But no one would have ever wanted your life. Because you'll be alone. — Katie Kacvinsky

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies. — Mario Monti

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge. — Jerry Seinfeld

What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives. — Wu Wei

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory — Warren Buffett

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people. — Joss Whedon

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real. — Paul Krugman

I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether. — Sophie Hardcastle

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money. — Bill Gross

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama. — Clint Eastwood

No virtue assists itself with falsehood; truth is never matter of error. To speak more of one's self than is really true is not always mere presumption; 'tis, moreover, very often folly; to, be immeasurably pleased with what one is, and to fall into an indiscreet self-love, is in my opinion the substance of this vice. The most sovereign remedy to cure it, is to do quite contrary to what these people direct who, in forbidding men to speak of themselves, consequently, at the same time, interdict thinking of themselves too. Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. They — Michel De Montaigne

I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player. — Ashley Bell

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.' — Karen Gillan

I'm sort of a strange bird. — Ann Bancroft

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that. — Meredith Whitney

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. — Arne Duncan

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. — Mark Zandi

Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone. — Philip Pullman

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation. — Paul Krugman

A whiff of fresh mint
that tastes like strawberry pie.
Your kisses tempt me. — Richelle E. Goodrich