Levying Quotes

#1. No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Frederick The Great

#2. They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

Barry Levinson

#3. It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Wilfrid Laurier

#4. I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Joseph Story

#5. In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

#6. The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

Robert Jackson

#7. I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

Eugene Levy

#8. You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

John Berger

#9. If you really want to dream, be fully awake.

Paulo Coelho

#10. The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.

Joachim Schmid

#11. Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

John C. Maxwell

#12. His mother had said that men were handsome and women beautiful, but after seeing Benjamin swimming and then lying on his blanket, David knew his mother was completely wrong - Benjamin was beautiful.

Geoff Laughton

#13. FUCK!" Annie Montrose said. "You have got to be fucking kidding me!

Andy Weir

#14. In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don't want them.

Noam Chomsky

#15. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot

#16. Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

Edvard Munch

#17. Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

Jen Lilley

#18. I love a little righteous comeuppance.

Leigh Bardugo

#19. Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

James Patterson

#20. Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

Al Yankovic