Margins Quotes

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
Barack Obama

Health, True, Care

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
Anne Lamott

Life, Friendship, Truth

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
Bill Russell

Victory, Mental, Toughness

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.
Susan Orlean

Hard, Pretty, Keep

Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
John Podhoretz

Moving, Political, Him

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
Colin Firth

Freedom, Mind, Haunting

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J. G. Ballard

Science, Reality, Everything

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Jesse Jackson

Poverty, Talent, Miss

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
Sophia Bush

Education, Learning, School

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff Bezos

Matter, Actually, Matters

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
Novak Djokovic

Dreams, Society, Poverty

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
Don DeLillo

Work, Enjoy, Lovely

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
Lev Grossman

Job, Made, After

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
Cornel West

Love, Trust, Justice

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
Carl Hiaasen

Greed, Idiot, Put

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch

Money, Live, Book

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
John Sayles

Time, Mean, Once

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo

Live, American, Dangerous

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
Joshua Foer

Art, Beautiful, Help

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
Yuri Milner

Business, Become, Line

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
Caprice Bourret

Funny, Here, Used

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.
Ruben Hinojosa

Life, Weather, Quality

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
Peter DeFazio

Year, Seen, Percent

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.
Gil Amelio

Down, Off, Direction

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk

Society, Feeling, Political

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
James Baker

Understand, Lose, Elections

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Joanna Russ

Art, Growth, Minority

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