Top 1200 Well-Spent Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican.

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest.

we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

I don't get to go to the beach often, so when I'm in Miami I usually spent the majority of my time by the ocean.

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.

As a teenager, I spent my days at the beach and nights cooking in Long Island restaurants.

A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.

I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

As a producer, as a songwriter, I've spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I think every moment spent with my dad is extremely special and close to my heart.

The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

For me, self-love is like: Am I sleeping enough? Eating well? Not: Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans? But: Am I eating well to be healthy and strong? And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.

Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.

Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.