Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree
Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell
Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.
‐‐ Thomas E. Mann
Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
‐‐ Bobby Schilling
Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.
‐‐ Jon Meacham
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
‐‐ Thomas E. Mann
Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.
‐‐ Lou Jiwei
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
‐‐ George Canning
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
‐‐ Martha Beck
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
‐‐ Milton Friedman
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
‐‐ John Bruton
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.
‐‐ Henry Petroski
Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.
‐‐ Robert Casey
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
‐‐ Eric Kandel
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd
Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.
‐‐ Gottfried Leibniz
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
‐‐ Auguste Comte
Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.
‐‐ Martin Rees
Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia
Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
‐‐ Richard Burton
Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
‐‐ Tertullian
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
‐‐ Voltaire
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
‐‐ Mark Haddon
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster
Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish
Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
‐‐ Liam Neeson
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart!
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
‐‐ John Shadegg
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
‐‐ Margaret Cavendish
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
‐‐ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
‐‐ Johann Georg Hamann
Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards.
‐‐ Robert Shea
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe
Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
‐‐ Cherie Blair
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
‐‐ Ben Edwards