Spends Quotes

276 quotes by 244 authors

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the… — Ron Paul
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws… — H. L. Mencken
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody… — Ken Kesey
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. — Steve Martin
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. — Madeleine L'Engle
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where… — Arthur Golden
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. — Orhan Pamuk
Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone. — Curtis Sittenfeld
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all Iâ€™m writing about is me. It seems wiser to… — Augusten Burroughs
I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother… — Ayelet Waldman
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She… — Anna Godbersen
Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted,… — Megan McCafferty
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends… — Paulo Coelho
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills… — Ludwig von Mises
A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself. — Tawni O'Dell
It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth… — Stephen R. Lawhead
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of… — Cecelia Ahern
[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.â€¦ The people can never understand why the President does not use… — Harry S. Truman

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