Top 1200 Spending Less Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

How do you hold down government spending?

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

I like spending time away with the family.

I love cooking and spending time in mine.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township, I find there's a great deal of social awareness, less of a sense of powerlessness, less of a polarization of economic life.

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.

I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

Between stagnant wages and the cost of everything going up - particularly health care and college tuition - people have less money to save and less money to spend.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

One of the goals we had when making 'Moth' was to have the vocals sound less treated and less processed than we'd ever had before, to just let them be exposed and very audible.

I want to do amazing roles fit for my age in 30 years. I'm sure I'll be less popular and have less offers then, but I think I'll be able to do act well for my age at the time.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

I really enjoy spending time at home.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

We just love spending time with family.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

Cut back your spending now.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

I would like to have campaign spending limits...

Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention, and our bodies eventually break down.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

I don't think spending money is a guarantee for anything.

In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

Planned Parenthood is absolutely wasteful spending.