Cutbacks Quotes

#1. At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#2. As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson

#3. Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start!

Craig Ferguson

#4. Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. I've made major cutbacks. I used to love soda. So I've cut out soda completely, and I'll drink iced tea or water for what I drink throughout my day. I just made that like a lifestyle change.

Khloe Kardashian

#6. Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Allen Klein

#7. As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Virginia Postrel

#8. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

Henry Waxman

#9. Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Robert Townsend

#10. If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Bobby Knight

#11. Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.

Lakshmi Mittal

#12. As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

Morrissey

#13. We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Eric Cantor

#14. We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Sonny Perdue

#15. I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

Charles Hazlewood

#16. You're never a loser until you quit trying

Mike Ditka

#17. The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Roman Baldorioty De Castro

#18. And there's nowhere I'd rather be than with you.

K.A. Tucker

#19. A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Christina Stead

#20. To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail ... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Marcel Proust

#21. No one gives out Congratulations on Not Being a Douche-Canoe medals, because good behavior is part of the social contract.

Jen Lancaster

#22. I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

Sandra Bernhard

#23. What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

Jennifer Belle

#24. Savage bears agree with one another.

Juvenal

#25. Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

Richard Heinberg

#26. When will it all be over? When will she have time to think and feel again? Presumably not till the baby is a teenager and can safely fend for himself. Although, of course, teenagers need to be taught to drive and say no to drugs and wear condoms.

Liane Moriarty

#27. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Arthur Brisbane

#28. Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

Queen Latifah