Belt Tightening Quotes

#1. The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

Christina Romer

#2. I would certainly rather the industry not go broke, but if that's what it takes for everyone to acquire some values and lose that sense of entitlement, maybe a little belt-tightening wouldn't be so tragic.

Tim Gunn

#3. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#4. Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Eric Cantor

#5. The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldiers' dreams

Matsuo Basho

#7. Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night .

Duncan Clark

#8. Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo