Rationed Quotes

#1. You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Ronan rationed the music from their old life, as if he used up a bit of his memories of his father every time he played it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#4. We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Dennis Miller

#5. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#6. What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

Rick Scott

#7. When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#8. The meager splash of charm he rationed with that ripped body and sexy swagger, made him nearly impossible to resist.

Debra Webb

#9. She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.

Ann Napolitano

#10. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

John Mahoney

#11. The coaches stunk of coal smoke and rationed tobacco and rationed booze and the farts of people eating wartime food.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time to make universal health insurance a national priority, so that the basic right to health care can finally become a reality for every American.

Edward Kennedy

#13. Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.'

Tim Walberg

#14. Dozens of people who'd been boo-hooing their eyeballs out an hour earlier were laughing like overcaffeinated hyenas, stuffing their face with a whole week's worth of SQ-rationed food. Dak wondered whether funerals for old people always ended up being such festive affairs.

James Dashner

#15. George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds.

Milton Friedman

#16. To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#17. Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

Louise J. Kaplan

#18. I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed

Margaret Atwood

#19. The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

George Hewitt Myers

#20. I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Jane Goodall

#21. And all he wants is to throw a rager in your sugar mill?" Then she frowned. "Wow. That sounded raunchy.

Kresley Cole

#22. It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

Brian Cox

#23. I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

Oleg Cassini

#24. When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

H.L. Mencken

#25. I always tell my mom I don't have regular problems. I have problems, like, what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today? Those are the types of issues I have.

Fetty Wap

#26. My track record is pretty good on predictions.

Ann Coulter

#27. Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

Malcolm X

#28. Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#29. Nothing is very constant in Beirut. Certainly not dreams. But despair isn't constant either. Beirut is a city to be loved and hated a thousand times a day. Every day. It is exhausting, but it is also beautiful.

Nasri Atallah

#30. Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Ben Harper

#31. You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

Brian Jordan