Emolument Quotes

#1. At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.

Edmund Campion

#2. I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.

Washington Irving

#3. The ministries of the Church are regarded by the masses merely as dignities, her offices as posts of emolument - in short, popular religion may be summed up as respect for ecclesiastics.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.

Thomas Paine

#6. The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Mencius

#7. Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for home-based health care.

David Mixner

#8. Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand - I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence - and peace of mind.

Sebastian Stan

#9. Places we went back to so many times that they started to

Carol Rifka Brunt

#10. End your journey well. Don't waste your life, and don't be satisfied with anything less than God's plan.

Billy Graham

#11. I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#12. I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

Johnny Depp

#13. I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

Kim Wilde

#14. It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

Angela Ruggiero

#15. What could you do to make a difference in the world?

Les Brown

#16. There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

#17. This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] 'effect'. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God's head (blamed God).

Dada Bhagwan

#18. Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tate's hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, "How full was that?"

Tate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. "Unopened. Why?

Ella Frank

#19. A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

Steven D. Levitt