Top 1200 Excessive Spending Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your feelings of helplessness and excessive dependence upon words to communicate. Try to find new ways to relate to tohers that are not dependent upon words. Enjoy, savor the day. Learn from it.

Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

As climbers, we need to learn to be good stewards of the land and take care of these places where we are spending so much time.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

The Koch brothers are spending more money against me than I've been able to raise.

There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room.

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure.

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you

I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.

I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.

Even after spending a substantial time in the entertainment business, before the release of a film, I am nervous.

I was a real wild kid, spending much more time outdoors than I ever did indoors.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.