“Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.” StillsStrangeDoctorsSelfishSavingSave A Life Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.” PeopleLittlesCountryTogetherJobsThreePayCareersPressesOpeningSavingManagersSavingsPublicists Author:Dar Williams
“More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.” PeopleEconomySavingSavingsStrengtheningLending Author:Jamie Dimon
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.” GovernmentCompanyBunchSavingBrokeResolutionAssetsLoanSavings Author:Warren Buffett
“You want to do something a little bit meaningful, because we're not saving the planet or anything, but we want to contribute in a positive way, in a way that makes a difference or makes somebody feel something.” WayWantFeelsLittlesBitsDifferencesPlanetsLittle BitMeaningfulSavingMaking A Difference Author:Chelsea Handler
“The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?” MenBookWantedJesusGivenThousandIraqThanksSavingComplimentOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.” IfsWayNeedsEnoughEnergyEffortWasteFairsInvestmentSavingCodeWealthySavingsAttorneyAccountantsNot FairTime And EnergySavings And Investment Author:Karl Rove
“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.” WayNeedsTryingSaidBookEndsTodayOrderAudiencePerspectiveTraditionArguingDoctrineSavingScholarlyCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).” IfsBookSometimesDiesChristLosesIssuesTreeElectionWoodsSavedSavingScopeTheologicalAtonementDeterminismSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.” BookShowsSavingFree WillSouthernChaptersTheologianPresbyteriansCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.” ThinkingBookMistakeArguingDoctrineSavingChaptersAtonementSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.” BookIdeasRealShowsTodayChristianRichesTheologySavingNo IdeaChaptersAtonementCalvinismReformed Theology Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!” PeopleThinkingMindEndsCoursesViewsReaderSavingScoreExpansionDistortionCaricaturesCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.” LooksBookMovingLyingSpeakBoundsSavingBordersCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.” ThinkingWayImportantHardChristAnswersLeaderFiveCenturyHistoricalCoreTheologyDoctrineSavingThrownRight WayScopeMisleadAtonementCanonAdherenceCalvinismDocumentationHard Core Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don't call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.” IfsFirstsCuttingDoctorsPatientLegsSavingDoctor WhoButchers Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.” TryingLooksMayHelpingMightShareExampleThousandMembersExpectationsOppositesJewExtremesAdmireSavingGrantedManifestationGenerousGasGenesAltruismDnaSelectionChamberFamily MembersReciprocityGas ChambersSchindler Author:Richard Dawkins
“It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.” JobsTrumpAmountCreatingTheatreEnormousSavingInverseCreating JobsStaging Author:Jonathan Chait
“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.” PeopleHeartPersonsMomentsStoriesFeelingsHomeBigsJobsMorningChangedNewsLosingNegativeStartingOptimisticSavingHeightHopelessRetirementUsualLightningHelplessSavingsRecessionsBoltsHeart WrenchingLightning BoltsOptimistic PersonAha Moment Author:Michelle Gielan
“If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.” IfsListsSavingReportsMinoritiesSchindlerSchindler's ListSaving Private RyanMinority Report Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.” MeanWould BeFilmWonderfulListsStorytellingSavingReally AmazingMunichSchindlerSchindler's ListSaving Private Ryan Author:Janusz Kaminski
“I do know that people enjoy reading a comic book and saving it and collecting the comics. And sharing them and trading them with friends. That may be something you can't do as easily with digital comics.” PeopleKnowsMayBookReadingEnjoySavingComicDigitalComic BookTradingCollecting Author:Stan Lee
“When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.” SavingHomosexualPillsNo Hope Author:Cleve Jones
“Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.” DifferentLife IsStageSavingPro LifeFetusStages Of Life Author:Nat Hentoff
“Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensLoversDiedAimUnionsSavingPrimariesAbraham Author:Malcolm X
“Get your money in balance. One rule of thumb is 50/30/20. Spend about 50% of your money on must-haves - things like rent, car payments - and about 30% on wants, while 20% should go toward savings and paying down debt.” WantShouldCarBalanceDebtSavingPaymentSavingsThumbsCar Payments Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it's time to move from paying debt to building savings.” MovingNextGoalBuildingPicksPaidDebtSavingSavingsDimesPaid OffPaying Debts Author:Elizabeth Warren
“We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.” PeopleWorldWarHardGovernmentTogetherHard WorkInstitutionsSavingGenerousWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFar AwayWorld War I Author:Bill Gates
“Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.” KnowsYearsHelpingGovernmentThreeMillionsOkayPrioritiesDisasterSavingBudgetsThree Years Author:Bill Gates
“So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.” MeanNextNumbersGenerationsCreatingAidsSavingIncentivesBreakthroughNext GenerationSave A LifeMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“The truth is, if you are a woman saving 10% of your income for retirement, and you put it in the bank account, your chances of retiring well - living on 90% of your pre-retirement income for your full life - is 0%.” IfsWellsLife IsChanceTruth IsAccountsIncomeSavingRetirementRetiringLiving OnBank AccountsFull Life Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America if they think we're headed to the road to Greece. And that's where we're going right now unless we finally get off this spending and borrowing binge. And I'll get us on track to a balanced budget.” IfsThinkingAmericaCompanyRight NowEntrepreneurTrackSpendingSavingBudgetsBalancedGreeceSavingsBorrowingBingeLife SavingBalanced Budget Author:Mitt Romney
“I do think that saving the economy was a pretty big deal. We did a lot of stuff early that ended up having an impact. I believe that the work we've done in moving our energy future in a cleaner direction is going to stick even if some of the individual steps that we took are reversed by future administrations. I think that it's embedded itself in the economy.” IfsThinkingBelieveDoneBigsMovingIndividualEnergyI BelieveStuffDealsStepsEconomyImpactSticksSavingAdministrationBig DealCleanersEmbedded Author:Barack Obama
“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.” WorldMadeDifferentKidsGamesGrowsDifferencesGrowing UpTakenChildhoodAchieveDiseaseIntelligentSavingOutcomesReportsPhilanthropyPhenomenalFull PotentialMalnutritionVery PositiveHaving KidsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of animals, and so on - but a person can ask him- or herself how he or she personally may exercise compassion or humility towards animals, vegetal life and so on.” WorldMayPersonsBigsAsksCausesAnimalCompassionHumilityPlanetsExerciseEnvironmentalPopulationSavingExploitationProspects Author:David E. Cooper
“People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsLooksKindPlayMightGamesSocialHoursLossWorryInternetInvestingSpendingProductivitySavingConsumersHelpfulEfficiencySiteNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkGaming Author:Reid Hoffman
“I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.” ThinkingKnowsTryingHelpingHandsGunAgreeBackgroundsChecksSavingStoppingComprehensiveSave A LifeBackground Checks Author:Hillary Clinton
“When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveCountryAmericaConsciousnessYeahBurdenSettingSettingsSavingSupposed To BeAgencyExtrasAgendasAnnoying Author:Naomi Wolf
“I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."” WaySaidRepublicanDemocratConservativeSavingGrandpaSaving Up Author:Kenny Chesney
“The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the world while living off the world's savings. They are living off the savings of the people of Greece, the savings of the people of Spain, France etc. All of those countries that save their reserves in the banks in dollars are simply financing the American economy, and that is why the average American citizen consumes two and a half times more than their income.” PeopleWorldTwoCountryStatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesEconomyCitizensDollarsAverageDebtBillionsIncomeSavingFranceEtcReservesSpainGreeceSavingsAmerican CitizensFinancingIndebtedAmerican EconomyHalf Time Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.” PeopleIfsMightNumbersTeachFamiliarSavingSavingsPension Author:George Osborne
“For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.” PeopleMomentsExampleSavingRequirementsCompulsory Author:George Osborne
“You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.” WantLooksAgeResponsibilityEffectsTaxesAmbitionRewardsSavingBrownPensionTax System Author:George Osborne
“You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.” PeopleNeedsYearsMeanStatesDifficultTermLowsIncomeMediumsSavingDragTestingSavingsPension Author:George Osborne
“The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsCareMillionsProgressCostRateSavingHealth CareFundLowestSavingsObamacareAffordableUndoneMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Care CostsTrust Funds Author:Barack Obama
“I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.” ThinkingJobsGrowthEconomyTrackSavingGood Job Author:Barack Obama
“If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.” IfsWould BeAbleFormHouseChurchEconomyEffectsTaxesPropertySavingApartmentTaxationSavingsExemptionProperty Taxes Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair