Quotes about Minimum

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. Votes: 4

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. Votes: 4

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear. Votes: 4

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. Votes: 4

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Votes: 4

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. Votes: 4

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. Votes: 3

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. Votes: 3

What is Maximum Governance, Minimum Government? It means government has no business to be in business. Votes: 3

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Votes: 3

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job. Votes: 3

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial. Votes: 3

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don't be shown up by a baboon Votes: 3

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure each sentence is at least four words longer or shorter than the one before it. Votes: 3

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth." Votes: 3

I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. Votes: 3

The real minimum wage is zero. Votes: 2

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. Votes: 2

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. Votes: 2

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. Votes: 2

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Votes: 2

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. Votes: 2

Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort. Votes: 2

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. Votes: 2

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Votes: 2

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health. Votes: 2

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. Votes: 2

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. Votes: 2

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. Votes: 2

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. Votes: 2

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children. Votes: 2

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. Votes: 2

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. Votes: 2

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. Votes: 2

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job. Votes: 2

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. Votes: 2

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think. Votes: 2

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. Votes: 2

There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped. Votes: 2

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. Votes: 2

There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. Votes: 2

I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 embellished cardigans. I'm not a believer in less is more; I'm sort of a believer in more is necessary. Votes: 2

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. Votes: 2

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax. Votes: 2

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. Votes: 2

A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual. Votes: 2

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. Votes: 2

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum. Votes: 2

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times. Votes: 2

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. Votes: 2

Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. Votes: 2

My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald's. And that's how you move up the chain. It's not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it's by actually acquiring the skills. That's the way that people get ahead in life. Votes: 2

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing. Votes: 2

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up. Votes: 2

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.' Votes: 2

Genre is a minimum security prison, Votes: 0

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold. Votes: 0

Get maximum effect from minimum effort. Votes: 0

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly. Votes: 0

You need minimum color for maximum effect. Votes: 0

We should raise the national minimum wage. Votes: 0

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow. Votes: 0

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer. Votes: 0

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation. Votes: 0

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve Votes: 0

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy. Votes: 0

Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two. Votes: 0

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. Votes: 0

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. Votes: 0

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. Votes: 0

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible. Votes: 0

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options. Votes: 0

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather ... Votes: 0

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. Votes: 0

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum. Votes: 0

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship. Votes: 0

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. Votes: 0

Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas Votes: 0

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people. Votes: 0

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation. Votes: 0

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill, Votes: 0

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that. Votes: 0

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit. Votes: 0

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk. Votes: 0

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. Votes: 0

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work. Votes: 0

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum. Votes: 0

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum. Votes: 0

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund. Votes: 0

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. Votes: 0

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. Votes: 0

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change. Votes: 0

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. Votes: 0

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. Votes: 0

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. Votes: 0

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. Votes: 0

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. Votes: 0

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs, Votes: 0

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. Votes: 0

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. Votes: 0

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor. Votes: 0

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women. Votes: 0

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage. Votes: 0

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum. Votes: 0

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. Votes: 0

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. Votes: 0

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. Votes: 0

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each. Votes: 0

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke. Votes: 0

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. Votes: 0

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. Votes: 0

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda. Votes: 0

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. Votes: 0

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. Votes: 0

It is important to practice so your movement is the minimum necessary to complete its task. Votes: 0

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. Votes: 0

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. Votes: 0

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. Votes: 0

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. Votes: 0

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum. Votes: 0

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you've strangled someone in a bar fight. Votes: 0

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God Votes: 0

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce. Votes: 0

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. Votes: 0

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. Votes: 0

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. Votes: 0

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage. Votes: 0

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. Votes: 0

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. Votes: 0

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. Votes: 0

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved. Votes: 0

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. Votes: 0

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses. Votes: 0

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. Votes: 0

I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing". Votes: 0

The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses. Votes: 0

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. Votes: 0

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18. Votes: 0

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population? Votes: 0

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. Votes: 0

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. Votes: 0

First, there is the law. It must be obeyed. But the law is the minimum. You must act ethically. Votes: 0

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour. Votes: 0

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity. Votes: 0

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. Votes: 0

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty. Votes: 0

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle. Votes: 0

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. Votes: 0

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty Votes: 0

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that. Votes: 0

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. Votes: 0

What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient. Votes: 0

Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum! Votes: 0

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended. Votes: 0

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. Votes: 0

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. Votes: 0

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. Votes: 0

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk. Votes: 0

Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense. Votes: 0

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. Votes: 0

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. Votes: 0

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back. Votes: 0

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour. Votes: 0

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. Votes: 0

That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum. Votes: 0

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. Votes: 0

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year. Votes: 0

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information. Votes: 0

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. Votes: 0

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology. Votes: 0

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience. Votes: 0

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. Votes: 0

You are not inefficient! You have the capacity to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time or resources. Votes: 0

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. Votes: 0

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down. Votes: 0

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum. Votes: 0

I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum! Votes: 0

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself. Votes: 0

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity. Votes: 0

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable. Votes: 0

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. Votes: 0

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage. Votes: 0

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar. Votes: 0

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. Votes: 0

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power. Votes: 0

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens Votes: 0

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head. Votes: 0

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. Votes: 0

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time. Votes: 0

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax. Votes: 0

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. Votes: 0

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure. Votes: 0

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get. Votes: 0

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. Votes: 0

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change. Votes: 0

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive. Votes: 0

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer. Votes: 0

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home. Votes: 0

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers. Votes: 0

The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that. Votes: 0

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization. Votes: 0

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. Votes: 0

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes. Votes: 0

Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum. Votes: 0

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination. Votes: 0

Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. Votes: 0

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. Votes: 0

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. Votes: 0

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work. Votes: 0

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families. Votes: 0

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. Votes: 0

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. Votes: 0

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. Votes: 0

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized. Votes: 0

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. Votes: 0

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. Votes: 0

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. Votes: 0

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place. Votes: 0

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. Votes: 0

Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything. Votes: 0

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. Votes: 0

Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules. Votes: 0

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty Votes: 0

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. Votes: 0

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency. Votes: 0

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. Votes: 0

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy. Votes: 0

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'. Votes: 0

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized. Votes: 0

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings. Votes: 0

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage. Votes: 0

As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing that, we're joking. Votes: 0

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. Votes: 0

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage. Votes: 0

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage. Votes: 0

...The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation... Votes: 0

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. Votes: 0

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us. Votes: 0

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. Votes: 0

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist. Votes: 0

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. Votes: 0

It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews. Votes: 0

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost. Votes: 0

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers. Votes: 0

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax. Votes: 0

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working. Votes: 0

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.] Votes: 0

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. Votes: 0

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater. Votes: 0

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering. Votes: 0

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. Votes: 0

President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about. Votes: 0

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty. Votes: 0

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Votes: 0

Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana. Votes: 0

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. Votes: 0

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do. Votes: 0

The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene. Votes: 0

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable. Votes: 0

We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23. Votes: 0

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. Votes: 0

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action. Votes: 0

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem. Votes: 0

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. Votes: 0

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights. Votes: 0

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. Votes: 0

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. Votes: 0

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. Votes: 0

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal. Votes: 0

Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try. Votes: 0

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. Votes: 0

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not. Votes: 0

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block. Votes: 0

I don't leave my house - I don't care if it's raining or scorching hot out - without a face cream with a minimum of SPF 15, if not more. Votes: 0

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay. Votes: 0

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms. Votes: 0

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions... Votes: 0

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing. Votes: 0

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal? Votes: 0

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content. Votes: 0

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day. Votes: 0

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help. Votes: 0

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness. Votes: 0

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding. Votes: 0

Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism! Votes: 0

Because, Jack, you volunteered to be taken down into eternal torment in place of her. This is the absolute minimum (unless I'm mistaken) that any female requires from her man. Votes: 0

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism. Votes: 0

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. Votes: 0

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek. Votes: 0

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer. Votes: 0

I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it. Votes: 0

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. Votes: 0

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality. Votes: 0

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. Votes: 0

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. Votes: 0

The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set. Votes: 0

The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers. Votes: 0

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough. Votes: 0

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified. Votes: 0

Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the minimum wage, and ensuring equal pay for equal work. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated. Votes: 0

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent. Votes: 0

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. Votes: 0

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life Votes: 0

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs. Votes: 0

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence. Votes: 0

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going. Votes: 0

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage. Votes: 0

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living. Votes: 0

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian)Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick) Votes: 0

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country. Votes: 0

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages. Votes: 0

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone, Votes: 0

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year. Votes: 0

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world. Votes: 0

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us. Votes: 0

There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. Votes: 0

Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties. Votes: 0

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. Votes: 0

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. Votes: 0

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.... Votes: 0

By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army. Votes: 0

Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states. Votes: 0

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. Votes: 0

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax. Votes: 0

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income. Votes: 0

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities. Votes: 0

Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president. Votes: 0

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. Votes: 0

I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday. Votes: 0

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated. Votes: 0

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? Votes: 0

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible. Votes: 0

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. Votes: 0

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level. Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. Votes: 0

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict. Votes: 0

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15. Votes: 0

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe. Votes: 0

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true. Votes: 0

Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience. Votes: 0

If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic. Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents Votes: 0

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage. Votes: 0

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater. Votes: 0

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. Votes: 0

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. Votes: 0

The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated Votes: 0

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. Votes: 0

Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive. Votes: 0

It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort. Votes: 0

Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it. Votes: 0

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. Votes: 0

There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture. Votes: 0

I opened fire when the whole windshield was black with the enemy . . . at minimum range . . . it doesn't matter what your angle is to him or whether you are in a turn or any other maneuver. Votes: 0

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer. Votes: 0

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. Votes: 0

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken. Votes: 0

Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum. Votes: 0