Beneficiary Quotes

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.

White people are so fragile, God bless 'em. 'Well, I didn't own slaves.' No you didn't. Nobody is asking you to take personal responsibility for this. But you're a beneficiary of a system that did. Just own that and move on.

I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.

A gift, bequest, or devise, made to a slave, by any one not his owner, would be void

That's what the CTC means, whoever cuts that check, that's who I have to play for.

Deed of Gift

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

I was the depository of the will of the Mexicans

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

Obviously, the bulk of my Nike shares have been set up in a trust.

Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.

I have been a product and a beneficiary of the creative industry.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.