Expended Quotes

#1. If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

#3. The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.

Maya Angelou

#4. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price

Lee Child

#5. In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

Rudolf Clausius

#6. More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

Mira Sorvino

#7. It's over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent, and I believe that Iraq should pay the families that lost a loved one several million dollars per life, I think at minimum.

Michele Bachmann

#8. As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Okay. Fine. Just be careful, okay? Whatever. I'm going to go get a drink.
And just like that, her parental energies were expended.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

Orhan Pamuk

#11. Least effort is expended when our actions are motivated by love, because nature is held together by the energy of love.

Deepak Chopra

#12. she sat rocking his head back and forth, back and forth, until his grief expended itself in emptiness.

Colleen McCullough

#13. They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

Smedley Butler

#15. My child, human love is an infinite resource. No matter how many times it is expended, whether stolen or given away, love can grow again - like a flower from a bulb - and fill your heart.

Brian Herbert

#16. Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. You may write twenty lines one day
or even three like Euripides in three days
and a hundred lines in one more day
and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#18. We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.

Donald A. Norman

#19. regimen limits sugars enough that inadequate filament is taken in, the danger increments for slow processing. Also, when an excess of red meats are expended,

Kennedy Smith

#20. The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

Grace Gealey

#21. There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

#22. Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

Haruki Murakami

#23. Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.

M. Stanton Evans

#24. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

Felix Adler

#25. Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.

Daniel Starch

#26. Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended ... then go forward on foot!

George S. Patton

#27. The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

Charles Vest

#28. Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Anton Chekhov

#30. Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

Isaac Asimov

#31. The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

J.G. Ballard

#32. Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

Jean Baudrillard

#33. But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

#34. It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.

Richard Helms

#35. The senator was the kind of man who, having expended all his empathetic capital on marrying someone surprising, wanted to make sure no other people had the ability to make their own choices for themselves. He was anti-immigration, antiwoman, antigay, and that was just for starters. To

Lauren Groff

#36. The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Harper Lee

#37. The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

George Vaillant

#38. Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Victor Hugo

#39. Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.

Tom Stoppard

#40. A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#41. When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#42. The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

Karen O

#43. But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest

Leo Tolstoy

#44. What it is ... is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to ... that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry ...

Jay Salter

#45. The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.

John Allen Paulos

#46. Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Anna Julia Cooper

#47. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#48. For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#49. Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#50. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#51. The enormous waste of energy that has deliberately been expended on vileness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#52. If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

Lauren Mackler

#53. We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders.

Flann O'Brien

#54. Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

James O. Fraser

#55. Culture is any and all human effort and labor expended upon the cosmos, to unearth its treasures and its riches and bring them into the service of man for the enrichment of human existence unto the glory of God.

Henry R. Van Til

#56. An average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended.

Lee Child

#57. You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

Charles Colson

#58. The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#59. There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

Dan Chaon

#60. Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Hans Hofmann

#61. The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth ... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

#62. I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

Binnie Kirshenbaum

#63. So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

David Strathairn

#64. In proportion as architecture degenerated, printing throve and flourished. The capital of forces which human thought had expended in building, it henceforth expended in books.

Victor Hugo

#65. Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming of age, so that much of the energy you expended came back guilt.

William McIlvanney