Basis Quotes
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It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.
Thomas A. Edison
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What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It’s not much of a basis for an economy.
Wilbur Ross
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The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
Renata Adler
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Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you're brand means within a T-shirt.
Virgil Abloh
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I think the most freeing thing about it is that people can support your work on an ongoing basis.
Judith Holofernes Wir sind Helden
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes
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I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.
Bono U2
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A lot of festivals on a worldwide basis that I am seeing, they're trying to multi-genre it. Like, they put a wild card band on, like, us old guys that happen to have a record that has stayed in pop culture for as long as it has.
Steve Lukather Toto
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Without dissatisfaction, there’s no basis for a sale.
Neil Rackham
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It has seemed to me that the theory (calcul) of probabilities ought to serve as the basis for the study of all the sciences, and particularly of the sciences of observation.
Adolphe Quetelet
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With the broad consensus reached on key aspects of this proposal the European Parliament has provided us with a solid basis for going forward."
Charlie McCreevy
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It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
Benjamin Carson
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Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
George Eliot
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Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.
Eric Hyman
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I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole marriage situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.
Mariah Carey
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill Gates
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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.
Carol Birch
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Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life.
Demetria McKinney
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Memory is the basis of every journey.
Stephen King
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Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.
Noam Bardin
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I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.
Bobby Lashley