Spending Quotes - Page 14

• Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

  E. Lockhart

  Astonishment, Hours, Should

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.46, Delacorte Press

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• I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.

  Helen Keller

  Country, War, School

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.42, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

  John Ensign

  Committees, Appropriation, Senate

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• I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and -
  cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

  Ken Buck

  Cutting, Government, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Military, Gdp, Goal

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• The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people.

  Olive Wyon

  Happiness, Christian, Sunday

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• I'd like to see people, instead of spending so much time on the ethical problem, get after the problems that really affect the people of this country

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, People, Problem

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• The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

  Martha Stewart

  Family, Live Life, Passion

  "Martha Stewart on Perseverance", www.achievement.org.

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• 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

  Russell Crowe

  Regret, Men, Oscars

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• I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.111, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Thinking, Years, Energy

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

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• Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

  Rene Carayol

  Education, Caring, People

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• Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

  Steve Martin

  Successful, Bad Relationship, People

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• One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.

  Edouard Bourdet

  Life, Making Money

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• Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

  Robert Breault

  Truth, Lying, Rest Of Your Life

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• Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

  Richard Hastings

  Halloween, Trends, Slam

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• We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the tone for the rest of the holiday shopping season.

  Richard Hastings

  Strong, Halloween, School

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• He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Halloween, Caring

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• We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, People, Political

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. November 4, 2010.

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• We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

  Tony Blankley

  Thinking, Political, Able

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• One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Religious, Buddhist

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• The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."

  Linda McQuaig

  Cutting, Assessment, Media

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• Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

  Edward Humes

  Children, Waiting, Too Late

  Edward Humes (2015). “No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

  Jay Mohr

  Fields, Obscene, Products

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• I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.

  Katie Davis

  Girl, Christian, Jesus

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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