Minimum Quotes

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.