Spending Quotes - Page 19

• Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, People, Debt

  "In her own words" by Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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• When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Dog, Song

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• We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Civilization, America

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit.

  James Madison

  Regret, Government, Evil

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Government, Limits, Activity

  Charles Edward Merriam (1903). “A History of American Political Theories”

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• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

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• Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Exercise, Long

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• The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

  Robin Sharma

  Positive, Real, Opportunity

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.22, Jaico Publishing House

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• Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II...Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Heart, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.218, Mango Media Inc.

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• I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.

  Graham McTavish

  War, Adventure, Character

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• I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Jesus, Stars, Believe

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

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• It's fun just spending time with everyone. It's something that's so simple, yet so valuable to me

  David Archuleta

  Fun, Simple, Spending Time

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• I meet a lot of characters in the
  islands, people who're running -- who're
  happier on a fishing boat than they
  are back home.When I first got
  down there,I don't know if I was
  running from a real bad heartbreak
  or running to something I thought
  would make me feel better.But
  since I've been spending time in
  the Caribbean, I've come to realize
  that I've got nothing to run from.

  Kenny Chesney

  Running, Real, Home

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• The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

  Conan O'Brien

  College, Government, Skills

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• It's [her new house] kind of like my relationship. I'm like nurturing it and like spending a lot of time there and making sure that everything is perfect. It's like my new boyfriend.

  Kim Kardashian

  Perfect, House, New Boyfriend

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• Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

  Debra Messing

  Dog, Husband, Book

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• We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

  Daniel Gilbert

  Children, Self, Tomorrow

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.13, Vintage

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, What If

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• My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Brahmins, Ancestor

  "Educational Thinkers". Book by V. R. Taneja and S. Taneja, 2006.

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• All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Religious, Believe, Anxiety

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• I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

  Roger Stone

  War, Believe, Islamic

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• The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough

  Thierry Mugler

  Fashion, People, Looks

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• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  Pat Toomey

  Thinking, Republican, Source

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