Expense Quotes
529 quotes by 455 authors
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
— Samuel Johnson
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The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where…
— Wes Jackson
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People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee…
— Dan Gelber
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Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they…
— Henry Adams
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is…
— Fanny Kemble
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
— Randeep Hooda
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We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
— John F. Carlson
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The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are…
— Criss Jami
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The…
— Hugo Black
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The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being…
— William Hazlitt
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In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds…
— Emma Goldman
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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven…
— Emma Goldman
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of…
— Milton Friedman
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need…
— David Gerrold
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
— Edward Gibbon
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
— Norman Cousins
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