#offered

When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke? ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#beer #beers #bit #broke #buy

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. ↗

— Richard Neal

#accomplish #alternative #bill #congresses #difficult

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. ↗

— Ovid

#like #long #many #offered #them

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Mike Pence

#capitol #capitol hill #declaration #democrats #economic

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#offered #show #who #wise #world

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#contracts #down #i #mind #offered

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children. ↗

— Little Richard

#brothers #children #felt #i #mama