Quotes About Austerity

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

Despite my deep misgivings about austerity and the harm it would do, I agreed to chair the national infrastructure commission under a Tory government, because I believed that delivering infrastructure investment could help build a brighter future for businesses and families. I am a pragmatist. I do what works.

There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.

Her body, sagging limply from her shoulders, contradicted the inflexible precision of the legs; the cold austerity of her face contradicted the pose of her body.

The stubborn embrace of austerity by key European leaders, despite all of the contrary evidence, was more than a little frustrating.

Alternatively, perfection might be regarded as the absence of all unnecessary things, and the pleasures of an ascetic life.

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.

There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

A stone wall twelve feet high now divides the city into east and west—Communist and capitalist. More than three hundred East German sentry towers line the wall. Those trying to escape from the austerity of East Berlin to the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lifestyle of West Berlin are shot on sight. This division is a visible scar reminding the Germans that they are a conquered people.

Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

When she looked back at Charlotte, she said, "I think your austerity measures are working. You're visibly farther from Maximum Tolerable Chins than you were a few days ago." Charlotte patted herself under her jaw. "I will not bore you with tales of hardship, but it has been dreadful. The things I do in service to my vanity.

A new austerity and prayerful privacy reigned. Oddly, this shift moved almost in lockstep with the growth of public musical theatre, as through the now idle impresarios o f the Catholic Church found fresh work in opera and oratorio.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

I reflected that the value of a work of art has no relation whatever to the pleasure it gives; indeed, the more I have dwelt upon the subject, the more I have come to prize austerity rather than luxuriance.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

Los habitantes constituyen la base de un país, los alimentos son la felicidad del pueblo. El príncipe debe respetar este hecho y ser sobrio y austero en sus gastos públicos.

abstemiousness