
Top 22 Not At My Expense Quotes
#1. I want people to like me but not at my expense.
Aubrey Plaza
#2. One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster
#3. I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.
Anne Hathaway
#4. I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not ... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
Gary David Goldberg
#5. Decision: I refuse to achieve "success" at the expense of my life. The two - life success and genuine fulfillment - will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, "Now I can finally start living!
Richie Norton
#6. As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
George Washington
#7. I was funny
ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.
Claire Messud
#8. What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
Linda Vester
#9. I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
Toussaint Louverture
#10. He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#11. We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries ... I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#12. At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.
George Duke
#13. Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.
David Amerland
#15. Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.
George Lucas
#16. Brown responded that he could not conceive of recommending that Britain join the Euro to advance his own prospects at the expense of the economic interest of the country
Anthony Seldon
#17. People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.
Malcolm Turnbull
#18. But don't I have any freedom of speech?"
"In your own house. Not in mine."
"Don't I have a right to my own ideas?"
"At your own expense. Not at mine."
"Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?"
"Not when I'm paying the bills.
Ayn Rand
#19. The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.
Edgar Degas
#20. Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.
Maxine
#21. Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy's expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
Alexandre Dumas
#22. Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.
Frederick Nymeyer
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