Top 1200 High Taxes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There's always a high school jerk, isn't there? But I didn't date much in high school, because I went to an all-girls' private school for ten years.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Jaylen's a high achiever. You can be a high achiever in every which way. He's a guy that - we've talked about several times - is gonna do bigger things off the court than on it, and he's a special player on it.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's not true.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

In London, there must be thousands of people in the business of making films, whereas in Nottingham or Sheffield, you're probably talking about below a hundred. So there aren't thousands of people scrapping for the same money and for the same jobs. I went out in Nottingham the other night and there's a really beautiful community of people who are really supportive. It's not this back-stabbing thing, high-rent, high-cost, high-tension. Up here we are independent filmmakers and there's a lovely sense of camaraderie.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

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

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

Most people I know have had problems paying their taxes. I am just like everybody else.

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

The wealthiest can afford to pay more in taxes. That's a part of the deal. That makes sense. I don't know anyone that doesn't agree with that.

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

The public hasn't learned that businesses don't pay taxes: only people do. They're confused, and this makes an adviser's job all the harder.

I've seen some amazing independent wrestling shows. I've seen high quality matches, I've seen high level talent.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

The elimination of deductibility of state and local taxes will also encourage more privatization of municipal services.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

Attracting business to a city is of huge benefit for taxes, jobs, purchasing of homes and home goods.

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.