Spending Quotes - Page 22

• They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

  James Carville

  People, Together, Rooftops

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• I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, White, Jingles

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• Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Soul, Lord

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Priorities, Making A Difference

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

  Brené Brown

  Winning, People, Hustle

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Miserable, Lost

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• I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

  Adele

  Mean, People, Giving

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• I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Thinking, Political

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• I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

  Harry S. Truman

  Numbers, Mind, Patch Up

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.

  Bill Gates

  America, Land, Long

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• If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

  George Stigler

  Airports, Missing, Too Much

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• This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

  Ilya Kovalchuk

  Home, Past, Russia

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• We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

  John Templeton

  Moving, Past, Ties

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• It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

  Wilbur Ross

  Reckoning, Borrowing

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• If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

  Wilbur Ross

  Class, America, Want

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• Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Environment, Prosperity

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?

  Francis Chan

  Crazy, Believe, Waste

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.133, David C Cook

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• This world is filled with things that will never make sense. Trying to make so much sense of them will only result in one thing: Spending the rest of your life trying to remember what you were like before any of it mattered.

  Matthew Good

  Trying, World, Rest Of Your Life

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• I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Long, Library, Would Be

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• I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Effort, Defense

  Barack Obama's Statement on the Supercommittee, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 21, 2011.

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• Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fighting, Elderly, Office

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• Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Increase, Supposed To Be, Earmarks

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• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  Kara Swisher

  Online, Ability, Critical

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