Top 1200 Billions Of Dollars Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

I get that Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my last name into a curse word.

From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does to public health and the environment, generating billions in new revenue for the American people.

After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who have worked before me to learn, to develop, to create the foundations and wealth of this planet. It is my turn to contribute to the progress of humanity. I will be grateful for anything I am paid in return.

When the federal government settles a case, the settlement dollars should go to the victims or the Treasury - period.

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

The President of the United States has long been the leader of the free world. The president and, yes, the nominees of the country's great parties help define America to billions of people. All of them bear the responsibility of being an example for our children and grandchildren.

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

I don't see how we can allow public dollars to fund programs where spite and hate is the core of the message.

We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

I've given away tens of millions of dollars over the years - probably to almost every charity in Australia.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are.

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

Now Carlos Slim, as you know, comes from Mexico. He's given many millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiatives.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Technology gets a bad rap for keeping us glued to our screens instead of being present with whomever is around us, and while this can be true, it also allows us to connect with billions of people all over the world. For free.

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

The last time I didn't sexually harass someone here at the campaign, I didn't pay them $850,000 dollars.

In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care.

Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.

The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn't bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion's share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.

The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

What we are talking about is extended world war...People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.