Expenses Quotes - Page 27

• As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

  Ali Liebegott

  Grateful, Poet, Filmmaker

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Fun, Trying, Sometimes

  Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”

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• Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Greatness, Distinction, Eminence

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• An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

  Storm Jameson

  Intelligent, Men, Careers

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• It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Wise, Selfish, People

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• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  Jared Sparks

  Country, Integrity, Sacrifice

  Jared Sparks (1855). “The Life of George Washington by Jared Sparks”, p.371

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• If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Pain, Human Nature, Ifs

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• All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

  J. G. Holland

  Bible, Religious, Foundation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 36, 1895.

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• The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Essence, Justice

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• [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him - and have much more fun - and much more expense.

  Sylvia Beach

  Running, Fun, Far Away

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• I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.

  Brian Williams

  Country, Running, President

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.

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• In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.

  Steven Tyler

  Book, Taken, Writing

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• I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

  Clive Owen

  Stars, Movie Star, Wanted

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  Eve Babitz

  Two, Brain, Tragedy

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.96, New York Review of Books

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• All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

  Frances Trollope

  Freedom, America, United States

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• Take it from me: no matter how few or how many children you have, or how little or how much money you make, your expenses are going to exceed your income by approximately a hundred dollars a month.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Family, Children, Dollars

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Up a Family Tree”, G K Hall & Company

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• Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

  Louise Hart

  Too Much, Doings, Humans

  Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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• Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

  Lev Artsimovich

  Inquiry, Way, States

  Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research,

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• Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

  Henry Kett

  Hands, Years, Income

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• When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Men, Blood, Hands

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “Wonder, Hope, Love, and Loss: The Selected Novels of Gene Stratton-Porter”, p.775, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Black And White, Journey, Today

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• Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Struggle, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Principles

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.97

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• But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Self Worth, Shields, Slave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Country, Selfish, Lying

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. VI, 1938.

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