Expenses Quotes
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Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
George Washington -
From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
Mike McGavick
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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
Robert Walpole -
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.
William Henry Pickering -
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
William Shenstone -
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy -
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar -
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
Satish Kumar
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Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.
Wanda Urbanska -
We're making money? We're also incurring amazing expenses - huge - as we hire more people, want more equipment.
Aliza Sherman -
I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
Seth Godin -
The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.
Mark Russell -
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins -
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
Helen Gurley Brown
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At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
Anthony Robbins -
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.
Terry Eagleton -
The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.
Vladimir Putin -
Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
Carl Baugh -
Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.
Carol Browner -
Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.
Richard Pryor
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That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.
Minna Antrim -
I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
Chien-Ming Wang -
It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
Hugo Black -
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
Thomas Sowell