Earner's Quotes

#1. Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

George Will

#2. They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I

Karl Ove Knausgard

#3. The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christine Pelosi

#4. Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.

Necro

#5. What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.

Marina And The Diamonds

#6. When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

Barbara Corcoran

#7. At best noise, at worse a potentially damaging input.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

Grover Cleveland

#9. It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Winston Churchill

#10. The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Khalil Gibran

#11. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

#13. Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

Pope Leo XIII

#14. He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.

Winston Graham

#15. The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Thomas Perez

#16. You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

John Linder

#17. Our anxieties were driving us to become other people - he was Earner; I was
Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play.

Claire Dederer

#18. Bigfoot loves celebrities. You just have to bring celebrities that Bigfoot loves. It would probably be just gorgeous women.

Rob Huebel

#19. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

Andrew Carnegie

#20. Any earner who earns more than he can spend is automatically an investor.

G.M. Loeb

#21. We want a macho high-earner - with the sensitivity of Gok Wan. We want a man with Brad Pitt's six-pack - but one who's prepared to overlook our own muffin top. No wonder most men don't know if they're coming or going.

Jojo Moyes

#22. Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Bill Pascrell

#23. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William J.H. Boetcker

#24. It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner ... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#25. I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

Cherie Lunghi

#26. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.

Sheryl Sandberg

#27. But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Plato

#28. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.

Kiefer Sutherland

#29. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunter Grass