Largess Quotes

#1. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Pat Conroy

#2. People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

Geoffrey Canada

#3. When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.

Charles Koch

#4. The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Tom G. Palmer

#5. Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

Denis Hayes

#6. She carries nothing" he says, "but a small dagger and an even smaller heart.

Robin LaFevers

#7. The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Steve Pavlina

#8. I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

George Strait

#9. The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Kathy Reichs

#12. What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.

Rick Wagoner