Top 1200 High Taxes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our bit to support a higher growth rate, but on a durable basis.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

Taxes do have a clear record of curbing the consumption of, and thus the public-health impact of, tobacco and alcohol.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

My first year of high school, I attended Duval High, home of the Duval Tigers. It's located in one of most notorious neighborhoods in the Prince George's County, Maryland, area.

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

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

I do believe in high, high intensity. I don't believe that there's anytime while I'm on the floor that I should be sitting down catching my breath; that doesn't make sense. There's plenty of time to rest when I'm done.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.

I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

You must have high ambitions and high ambitions scare small-minded people.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.

In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Republican who votes to significantly increase taxes for certain segments of the general public.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.