Axes Quotes - Page 5

My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

It's interesting that you mention [Andrei] Sakharov's creative axis - he had produced something for the government that he then realized was something other than he intended. That's something [NSA whistleblower] Bill Binney and I share.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

It could just be a shift on the axis.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.