Oversaving Quotes & Sayings

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. — John Dryden

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something. — Patrick Chan

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason. — John Selden

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does. — Nick Woodman

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder. — Ward Cunningham

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly. — Justin Hayward

I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it. — Jordin Sparks

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. — David Brinkley

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black. — Karen Marie Moning

When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you grow to despise. With Stavros, she wonders if the opposite might hold true: that this quality she nearly fears - his aversion to sanctifying the past - is something for which she will someday be grateful. — Julia Glass

Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within the national borders. For — Hannah Arendt

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that. — Grace Hopper

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do. — Lynn Schusterman

What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within national borders. For the first time, investment of power did not pave the way for investment of money, since uncontrollable investments in distant countries threatened to transform large strata of society into gamblers, to change the whole capitalist economy from a system of production to a system of financial speculation, and to replace the profits of production with profits in commissions. The decade immediately before the imperialist era, the seventies of the last century, witnessed an unparalleled increase in swindles, financial scandals, and gambling in the stock market. — Hannah Arendt