Top 1200 Gross Domestic Product Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

I would rather not meddle in the domestic politics of the United States.

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.

Cross-burning is a domestic act of terrorism. It's been classified as such.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have seen what priestcraft and fanaticism can do, and credulity believe.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

I can't work in a domestic kitchen; it's just too confined. There's no freedom, and there's no buzz.

It feels great that my performances in domestic cricket have been recognised.

If you give me fro-yo without mangoes, you're dead to me. If you say that Hawaiian pizza is gross, we're done.

The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies through images of an impossible ideal, we create a really vulnerable and avid consumer. If somebody feels that they're not OK without a certain product, you have a very deep and loyal market that will come back to the product again and again. Sometimes, this process is both rational and irrational.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

A few years ago, the Bose Acoustics Corporation had a new product, the Bose Wave Music System. And their ad campaign for it was not successful until they changed one thing. At the top of the ad they said, "Hear what you've been missing." And that caused the skyrocketing of the interest in purchasing of the product. Why? Because with something new, people are uncertain, and when they are uncertain, they want to avoid losses.

So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Iraq war has made us overlook domestic agenda.

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.

As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

A product of your life and liberty is your property. Property is the fruit of your labor, the product of your time, energy, and talents. It is that part of nature that you turn to valuable use. And it is the property of others that is given to you by voluntary exchange and mutual consent. Two people who exchange property voluntarily are both better off or they wouldn't do it. Only they may rightfully make that decision for themselves.

Gross negligence cannot possibly have intent because it cancels it out. If you're grossly negligent, intent's not a factor, you are or you aren't.

Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.

What characteristics are most important in creative workers? One quality you need is inventiveness. You need to be able to take whatever product or service you are providing and figure out ways of making it better, faster, cheaper. The other quality is empathy and insight into what people might want, even though they don't even know their wants, probably because there's no product or service to test their wants.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.