Quotes About Spending

#1. I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.

Johnny Weir

#2. When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

Randy Houser

#3. I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

#4. People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

Diablo Cody

#5. Spending time with her father was like showering with a cheese grate - it got more painful each time.

Steven Manchester

#6. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

#7. I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker, I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore, riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#8. I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

Marian Wright Edelman

#9. When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to take into account the social costs involved in cutting government spending.

Raghuram Rajan

#10. I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.

Craig Armstrong

#11. We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

Kristi Noem

#12. I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#13. To see a tree in Winter is to see it for what it really is. A Winter tree is an object so intricate and so perplexing that if it hadn't already; been decided that Winter trees were plain and boring, we would be spending hours pondering them, staring at them in astonishment.

Vivian Swift

#14. Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

Peter George Peterson

#15. I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

Big Boi

#16. If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

Fred DeLuca

#17. Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

Jennifer Granholm

#18. Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon

#19. Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don't need their state government making that worse.

Chris McDaniel

#20. The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we'll dig a hole deep enough to deliver her to Satan ourselves.

Frankie Boyle

#21. Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

Bob Brown

#22. I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

Al Capone

#23. If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

Martin O'Malley

#24. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Joseph Barbera

#25. The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.

Nouriel Roubini

#26. They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Adam Garcia

#27. How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

Mark Steyn

#28. I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

Claudia Gray

#29. The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Adele

#30. Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

Evelyn Underhill

#31. I like spending time with my husband.

Lara Stone

#32. In a louder voice than I'd intended, I say, "Hey, beautiful."
"Shhh!" She attacks. "If you wake that baby, I'll pluck out every pubic hair you have the next time you fall asleep."
My eyes widen. She's been spending way too much time with Delores these days.

Emma Chase

#33. The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

Christine Todd Whitman

#34. The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

Henry Hazlitt

#35. I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

Ronald Reagan

#36. I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

Stephen Harper

#37. Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

Jose Angel Gurria

#38. I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.

Lamar Alexander

#39. We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

Jo Ann Davis

#40. After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.

Pat Toomey

#41. To me pornography is ... spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.

Bill Hicks

#42. The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.

Rush Limbaugh

#43. It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

Felicity Huffman

#44. A secret's not like coin. It doesn't keep its value in the spending.

Leigh Bardugo

#45. I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.

Kourtney Kardashian

#46. When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.

John Thune

#47. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Dan Webster

#48. People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Chad Hurley

#49. I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

Ethel Waters

#50. Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

Ludwig Von Mises

#51. I still think that going in on that Friday afternoon and spending that money was one of the happiest experiences of my life.

Jen Campbell

#52. I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how to best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine! Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

Charles M. Schwab

#53. Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs of our nation's seniors is not the right approach.

Paul Tonko

#54. We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

Marlin Stutzman

#55. Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

Alan Greenspan

#56. When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

Marion Cotillard

#57. We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

Marsha Blackburn

#58. Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#59. I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

Jeff Miller

#60. Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Neil Gaiman

#61. Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...

Jessica Gadziala

#62. Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

Dee Dee Myers

#63. It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Sherrod Brown

#64. People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Zhang Yimou

#65. I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#66. The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

Milton Friedman

#67. Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it.

Five For Fighting

#68. I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

Jenson Button

#69. I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century.

Rachel Cohn

#70. Conservatives don't merely want less government. They want to raise spending for the military - even bring back Star Wars - not reduce it. They want to build more prisons. There is no move to eliminate the drug enforcement agency.

George Lakoff

#71. We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Paul Ryan

#72. How much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

Sam Altman

#73. I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'

Christina Hendricks

#74. If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

Oprah Winfrey

#75. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

Sloane Crosley

#76. We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

Douglas Carswell

#77. It's not a real relationship if you're not spending at least half of it pretending to get along fine for the benefit of other people.' Adam

Nick Spalding

#78. The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

Dick Morris

#79. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

#80. Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Tom Golisano

#81. The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Paul Ryan

#82. I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

George Harrison

#83. This isn't an easy lifestyle for a coach's wife. The coach is the guy who stands up and hears everyone tell him how great he is. The wife is the one waiting at home alone while the coach is spending every night at the office.

Joe Gibbs

#84. I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

Prince Royce

#85. It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

Gary Neville

#86. We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

Bernard Ebbers

#87. I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

Kailash Satyarthi

#88. How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

Cris Collinsworth

#89. It isn't me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I'm not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.

Immortal Technique

#90. Here, too, we tend to be schizophrenic. We would all like to see government spending go down, provided it is not spending that benefits us. We would all like to see deficits reduced, provided it is through taxes imposed on others.

Milton Friedman

#91. Spending one's last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden.

Bauvard

#92. It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.

Caroline Baum

#93. The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this.

Cecelia Ahern

#94. Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative
the building blocks of success throughout our society.

Milton Friedman

#95. If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life,

Angela Merkel

#96. Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.

Shari Arison

#97. Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn't want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.

Terry Pratchett

#98. If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

Martin Luther

#99. A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.

Diplo

#100. Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Timothy Noah