Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.
After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
