Top 1200 Well-Spent Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

I feel like I put pressure on myself to perform well and to play well and to do well. That's what I expect of myself. It's not always going to happen, but I can certainly sort of put myself in the position where I can get the best out of myself.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate.

I spent 10 wonderful years at Real Madrid.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.

I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.

People have sort of been swirling around me, going, 'Oh, you should run for mayor.' Well I didn't really want that job. 'Well, you should run for governor.' Well, that's not really possible.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I have spent more time on stage than at home.

Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.

I've spent so much of life thinking of my body as my enemy.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

I spent the better part of my developing years in Massachusetts.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

Jeb Bush says he`s not a good - why would he admit that? I watched him. I`m not an entertainer. He goes, I`m not a good talker. I don`t speak well. I don`t debate well. I don`t do anything well. But you should vote for me. That`s Jeb Bush.

Out of the five years I spent in software, I was in the U.S. for two.

Philadelphia, wonderful town, spent a week there one night

We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

The New York Times ran a story about [Jeff] Sessions meeting the Russian ambassador, and they ran Claire McCaskill's tweet excoriating Sessions for doing this and saying that he should resign. Well, then it was produced that Claire McCaskill had, in fact, sent two other tweets where she was bragging about having spent time with the Russian ambassador. So the New York Times, rather than print that, just removed her from the whole story.

I spent the first 15 years of my career in Seattle.

Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

I spent two and a half years in Louisville, and I loved it.