Top 1200 Excessive Spending Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.

I actually moved my address back to the U.K. because I'm spending half my time there anyway and financially it's better to be based over there.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

When people ask me about color in my work, I tend to say that it came from spending a lot of time in Panama.

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

I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the idea of the "general welfare." One consequence must be, to enlarge the sphere of discretion allotted to the executive magistrate... The other consequence would be, that of an excessive augmentation of the offices, honors, and emoluments, depending on the executive will.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

With excessive digitisation, now, everyone is making films, which is good, but the makers think that they will quickly make films in digital and bag satellite rights but television channels buy satellite rights of notable films only. If we made fewer films a year, percentage of hits would be better.

I've been spending a lot of time poring over everything I've written, because I know people are going to hear it.

There has been a lot of expectation on Manchester City and with the spending they have done they have to win something. Sometimes you have a noisy neighbor and have to live with it.

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

I believe in spending money to make your home the perfect sanctuary away from work and the stress of everyday life.

The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.

It's true that after spending as long as I have at the highest level, a number of injuries have nearly wrecked my career along the way.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

When I was 18, I was working at Luton airport and spending all my money on going out and buying tops. I had no fears, no responsibilities.

More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.

Like I always said, Carson Palmer got hit in his knee in 2005 but there was no rule made. Then Tom Brady got hit in his knee and all of a sudden there is a rule and possible suspensions, excessive fines - it's just getting ridiculous.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

“Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So... try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?” He smiled crookedly. The helplessness had faded as he spoke. I glared at him. “I'll see what I can do,” I snapped as I jumped out into the rain. I slammed the door behind me with excessive force. He was still smiling as he drove away.

That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.

President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.

We don't really have any big family traditions; just spending time with each other is the most important part.

British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

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 a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.