Something For Nothing Quotes

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

In politics, there is no such thing as getting something for nothing. The payoff may involve compromises of various types that strike at the ideals and principles one has held deal all his life.

Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

Republican politics: Every man for himself. Democratic politics: Something for nothing.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other.

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

[Referring to State lotteries:] People have a tendency to try and get something for nothing.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

This philosophy of something for nothing, the cult of individual and government irresponsibility is an insidious cancer that will destroy us as a people unless we recognize it and root it out now.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

The something-for-nothing culture has been championed by a minority of militant union leaders, who threaten strikes with impunity to secure unjustifiable pay hikes.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

The real problem is the built-in ideas in Muslim minds that they can always get something for nothing. They don't go to normal healthy schools where other boys and girls go for their training. They have to go to 'madrassahs' and then learn nothing. They are taught that the earth is flat; that the sun goes round the earth and Mecca is the center of gravity of the earth.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.