Sustenance Quotes

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the f. - Grover Cleveland

Whatever Allah grants to men of (His) mercy, there is none to withhold it, and what He withholds there is none to send it forth after that, and He is the Mighty, the Wise / O men! call to mind the favor of Allah on you; is there any creator besides Allah who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth? There is no god but He; whence are you then turned away? / And if they call you a liar, truly apostles before you were called liars, and to Allah are all affairs returned. - Quran

We're getting to the age when we're starting to see that responsibility isn't such a bad thing, when we see maturity as the key to sustenance. - William Petersen

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return. - George Lincoln Rockwell

We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here. - William Orville Douglas

We believe Compaq's sustenance is dependant on its execution, which has anything but stellar in the enterprise hardware and services segment... While the PC divisions - consumer and commercial - generate half of overall revenue, they represent only a tenth of operating income. - Ashok Kumar

Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources. - Rabindranath Tagore

Those caribou hunters spent a lot of money on travel, equipment and licensing fees, a figure disproportionate to the value of the meat they gained for sustenance. I see a distinction here from indigenous peoples hunting for survival. - Paul Moriarty

This ignores the real-world realities of half a million seniors who rely on the food package for basic sustenance. It's bad politics. - Doug O'Brien