Expended Quotes

36 quotes by 36 authors

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.… — C.S. Lewis
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified. — Joseph Stalin
Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of… — Jean Baudrillard
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable,… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and… — Anna Julia Cooper
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended… — Daniel Starch
If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in… — Lauren Mackler
The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of our emotional and sensory life, flowers are dimmer and less… — Joanna Macy
The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in… — Harper Lee
Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the… — Stephenie Meyer
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul"… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. — Richard Helms
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. — Felix Adler

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