Fuses Quotes

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year. - Bill Clinton

You don't need a cape. But an actor who refuses a cape is a fool. - John DiDonna

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. - Jean Church

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses. - Howard Osofsky

Yes, it's true that earmarks are only 1 percent of all federal spending, but earmarks have a cultural effect on Congress that is much larger than their cost. It fuses Congress together with lobbyists and creates a culture of government spending as a means to re-election, which bleeds into other areas. - Brian Riedl

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. - Thomas Carlyle

With tonight's speech, Sanford again refuses to take responsibility for his failed policies and ... the voters have about had enough. - Joe Erwin

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. - Twyla Tharp

Why don't we just make sure and change the law, and if the governor then refuses to call the state of emergency, then we have something to fight about. - Ray Haynes

Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour. - William Congreve