Spending Quotes - Page 13

• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Thinking, Records

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him. "You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he said. "You're starting to get delicate." "How would you like to have me gut you?" she offered. "That's my girl.

  David Eddings

  Girl, Too Much, Starting

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• Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Jesus, Work

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• ...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Team, Sleep, Fire

  "It Had to Be You". Book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, August 1, 1994.

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• Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

  Gary Paulsen

  Song, Stupid, Book

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• At least you're learning a thing or two about wine. Good to hear you're making such an effort to improve yourself." "Does the U.S. attorney know how much you like spending your Saturday nights eavesdropping on private conversations?" Nick asked. "The U.S. attorney knows exactly how I like spending my Saturday nights.

  Julie James

  Wine, Night, Two

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.71, Penguin

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• You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Waiting, Trying, Six Months

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• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

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• If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

  William S. Burroughs

  Spending Time, Lost, Plasma

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Nature, Father, Moon

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Reading, Fate, People

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• Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

  Louis L'Amour

  Games, Long, People

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping off a building or blowing my brains out with a gun might stop the suffering. but something about spending a night with a knife in my hand did it. The next morning I called my friend Susan as the sun came up, begged her to help me. I don't think a woman in the whole history of my family had ever done that before, had ever sat in the middle of the road like that and said, in the middle of her life, "I cannot walk another step further--somebody has to help me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Gun, Night

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.101, Penguin

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• I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Sarcastic, Night

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.199, Tammara Webber

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• Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, Weekend, Thoughtful

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• I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

  Tina Fey

  Bed, Guarantees, Birth

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Rich, Become Rich

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• Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

  Ann Patchett

  Nice, Tired, Men

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• She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

  Michael Crichton

  Order, Long, Labs

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• I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Found You, Missing, Half

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.394, Macmillan

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• What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Getting To Know Each Other, Knows, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mother, Sophie, Getting High

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• I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

  Nicholas Sparks

  I Like You, Love You, Spending Time

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