Individual Contributions Quotes

#1. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#2. Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

Bernie Sanders

#3. As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

James L. Buckley

#4. There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

Charles H. Townes

#5. While the individual contributions provide the "building block" of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.

Pearl Zhu

#6. I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.

Kim Barnouin

#7. I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

#8. It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.

Rabia Chaudry

#9. Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

Marc Lasry

#10. We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

Bernie Sanders

#11. In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.

Mark Shields

#12. What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

Stephen Chbosky

#13. I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

James E. Faust

#14. She drove like one of the damned on holiday.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

Tom Rath

#16. Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

Oliver Goldsmith

#17. In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

Carlo Rubbia

#18. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

Elliot W. Eisner

#19. One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Michel Foucault

#20. Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

Tracey Emin

#21. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That's right, $27.

Bernie Sanders

#22. I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

Miranda Kerr

#23. Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.

Kevin Dillon

#24. Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

Blythe Danner

#25. Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

Alice McCall

#26. Didn't the sky know the world was falling apart? How could the sun shine today?

Kiera Cass

#27. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

#28. A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Peter Drucker

#29. Tadark, this phrase is probably meaningless to you as it is so oft repeated, but do be quiet.

Cayla Kluver

#30. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

Max Gray