Top 33 Quotes About Cronies
#1. The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
Edmund Phelps
#2. Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
Wendy Davis
#4. Crabbe or Goyle - or, come to think of it, another Death Eater, he'll have loads better cronies than Crabbe and Goyle now he's joined up
J.K. Rowling
#5. I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.
Margaret Thatcher
#6. Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.
Charles Barron
#7. Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
Brian Behlendorf
#8. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. Cronies
Joseph Heller
#9. Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
Irwin Redlener
#10. [Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare
Lawrence Lessig
#11. Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright
#12. Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#13. As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me wrong, I have zero regrets when it comes to the acting stuff. I think it's made me a better director.
Coley Sohn
#14. The Byrd cronies retaliated by diverting taxpayer money to fund whites-only "segregation academies," private schools founded to circumvent integrated public schools.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#15. My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
Kim Gordon
#16. Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thought his tactics were dirty and when I shouted as much, he came over & forced me to retract.
Pete Townshend
#17. In Russia today, 110 persons, including Mr. Putin's cronies, control 35% of the country's wealth while 50% of adults have total household wealth of $871 or lower.
Anonymous
#18. It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.
Therese Fowler
#19. The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable ... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#20. Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.
Tom Perrotta
#21. Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide ... And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.
Faina Ranevskaya
#22. Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'
Sophie Hannah
#23. I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
Gloria Allred
#24. happiness exists when u dont know a thing.
The Weeknd
#25. She's a firestorm that I won't ever smother. I'm the one who inflames her, who riles her to a new, confounding degree. She's my perfect match.
Krista Ritchie
#26. Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
J.A. Konrath
#28. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
Paulo Coelho
#29. Why, my Lord, did you have to bring
Me down from the safety of my hill
Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)
Madeleine L'Engle
#31. Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity.
Victor Hugo
#32. As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
Leo Buscaglia
#33. It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon.
Dick Vermeil
