Allocated Quotes

#1. One of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.

Carrie Fisher

#2. Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#3. One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story - the money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the multiples.

Thomas Pynchon

#4. One year of the world's military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

Zainab Salbi

#5. All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!

James Van Praagh

#6. Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.

Sheri Fink

#7. A failure to use all senses equals a scene not seen to its full potential, attention that has not been allocated properly, and subconscious cues that color the attention that is allocated in a way that may not be optimal

Anonymous

#8. Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.

Peter Brimelow

#10. The actual "Root Bug" is the fact that earning opportunities (work) aren't allocated to people (in the mid-term) according to their willingness to spend and invest.

Tuure Parkkinen

#11. I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

Nathalie Emmanuel

#12. When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#14. I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

Tippi Hedren

#15. Actually, the idea of economic man is an efficient way of excluding women. We have historically allocated women certain activities and said that she must do them because she is a woman. Then we create an economic theory that states that these activities have no economic meaning.

Katrine Marcal

#16. With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

Jeff Miller

#17. children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.

Glenn Meade

#18. I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#19. Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited.

Orson Welles

#20. Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Donna Brazile

#21. From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Vito Fossella

#22. We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Michael Bloomberg

#23. You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

James Surowiecki

#24. not only did foil fail to block radio waves, it actually amplified certain frequencies - notably frequency bands allocated to the U.S. government for GPS communications.

Rob Brotherton

#25. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

Steven Solomon

#26. Require ... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

Robert A. Dahl

#27. Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.

Wendy Lesser

#28. The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

Gore Vidal

#29. I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned.

Robert Gottlieb

#30. We all need each other.

Leo Buscaglia

#31. Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Frank Bidart

#32. Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

Martin Luther

#33. Turned out Pat had tragically low standards. Sad, but hardly a surprise.

Alex Gabriel

#34. I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#35. Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#36. Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

Charles R. Swindoll

#37. We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America
a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America
that values the service of every patriot.

Barack Obama

#38. I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.

Sarah Silverman

#39. There are little fairies outside," I breathed, forcing out the words through quick breaths. His brows drew together in a way that wasn't scary but, instead, surprised and he replied, "Those aren't fairies, wife, those are elves." Elves? Elves.

Kristen Ashley