Top 222 Lowering Quotes & Sayings

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly what we're committed to do, not just with our historic investments into infrastructure that are going to create jobs while the others are focusing on cuts, but by lowering payroll taxes, by lowering EI premiums from $1.88 to $1.65, at the same time as we make sure that the people who need help are getting the help that they paid into, because they're not getting it under Stephen Harper. That's what Canadians expect from their government.

The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.

Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.

My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a lot easier said than done.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

If we put our policies in the right order, we have a sustainable society without lowering but even increasing our levels of wellbeing.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Conservatives in Government must make the case that lowering the tax burden boosts economic growth and leads to an increase in tax revenues.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.

Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

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

The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

Eliminating or substantially lowering just one major monthly expense can give you enough cushion to move into a more comfortable place financially.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

If the cost is lowering one's ego and a bit of money, so be it.

We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs is one of the most important things Congress can do to help people in western Pennsylvania.

Trade deals are not the vehicle for raising or lowering standards of protection for consumers, the environment, workers or anyone else. Regulations are made by governments and parliaments.

The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.

Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.

Increasing patient access to more affordable, FDA-approved generic and biosimilar medicines is a proven and tested solution to lowering prescription drug costs.

We believe in lowering taxes for everyone, and those tax reductions should be targeted at people with middle and modest incomes, and I don't say that rhetorically.

Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.