Defraying Quotes

#1. So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

John Quincy Adams

#2. Do you really hate being around me so much now that you'd high tail it away from me when you can barely stand?

Nicole Williams

#3. A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Achieving the good life is more a matter of being than of doing or giving. It calls for intense self-scrutiny, a relentless honesty about one's motives, and a persistent feeling that we are no better - and perhaps worse - than those we are trying to help.

Sydney J. Harris

#5. She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Ayn Rand

#6. Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse:
Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;

William Shakespeare

#7. If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

Francois Fenelon

#8. Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Terry Goodkind

#9. Nothing about my life is lucky - it's all about hard work, it is all an uphill struggle.

Emily Giffin

#10. A carelessness can end life.

Manroop Suthar

#11. Such things happen," said Too-ticky

Tove Jansson

#12. I admire and look up to heroes, but indolent men make the best lovers.

Harriette Wilson

#13. It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

Marshall Goldsmith

#14. There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.

Charlaine Harris

#15. Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

Tristram Stuart