Top 100 Spare Quotes
#1. The same tired people who dragged bags and baskets full of their dirty laundry out in public when they had a rare spare moment. It was a certain breed of people that used Laundromats and Ren had it down to such a fine science she could have probably recognized them on the street.
Amity Lassiter
#2. He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep - I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#3. A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.
Phil Baker
#5. But I applaud your audacity. Some would call it stupidity, but I now consider myself your friend and I will call it audacity just to spare your feelings.
Robert J. Crane
#6. Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.
Agnes Obel
#7. When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.
Lou Adler
#8. All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
#9. (from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.
Jim Harrison
#10. I had taken a bitch's man for way less meaningful purposes, so to take one to spare my life was a no brainer. Leave
Jessica N. Watkins
#11. I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"
Neil Armstrong
#12. There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.
- Miles Vorkosigan
Lois McMaster Bujold
#13. I took him to be about thirty, but it's hard to tell with fat people: they've no skin spare for wrinkles.
Mark Lawrence
#14. To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.
Simon Sinek
#15. Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold
#16. Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.
John Betjeman
#17. That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with
a belt to protect me - that selfless girl, that's not you?
Veronica Roth
#18. I started writing stories in my spare time.
Ken Follett
#20. Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.
Allison Pearson
#21. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer
#22. The Carrion Spike may already be in motion," Tarkin said, squaring his shoulders. As if in echo of Tarkin's posture of readiness, Vader planted his fists on his hips. "Then we have no time to spare.
James Luceno
#23. We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.
Marcel Proust
#24. Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
John Milton
#25. If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
Betty Smith
#26. Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)
Karl Albrecht
#27. Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
#28. In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.
Kevin Smith
#29. And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.
Gayle Forman
#30. So spare me your envy. It was the gods who neglected to give you a cock, not me.
George R R Martin
#31. Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.
Frank Woolley
#32. I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia
Tom Holt
#33. Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
Robert Boyle
#34. The "first woman judge" was a colorful figure whose activities inspired longer stories than the spare announcements that had followed the passage of the woman suffrage bill.
Taft Alfred Larson
#36. I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.
Liane Moriarty
#37. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied
#38. Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours."
"Whose arguments should I use?
Franny Billingsley
#39. Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Rumi
#40. How Michelle spent her spare time was anybody's guess. Mostly she appeared to be marinating in a mood. "Got
Dorothea Benton Frank
#41. What maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
Catherynne M Valente
#42. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.
Orson Scott Card
#43. F Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.
Anonymous
#44. That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
Sessue Hayakawa
#45. In Germany anti-Uber feeling has nurtured a broader criticism of "Plattform-Kapitalismus"; its perceived readiness to reduce all aspects of people's lives, from spare rooms to spare time, to assets to be auctioned off is seen as deeply dehumanising.
Anonymous
#47. Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
Thomas Gray
#48. I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup.
Gayle Forman
#49. I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#50. Boo was asking him who the hell he thought he was and also could he spare a few kitty treats for a poor, abused house cat?
Kristen Ashley
#51. Ten o'clock!" "What does it matter when my things are put up?" the young man said. "There's no crowd at this moment; there will be cabins to spare. I'm waiting for a telegram - that will settle
Henry James
#52. I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
Karl Marlantes
#53. We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.
Judy H. Wright
#54. Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?
Mark Bowden
#55. I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
Bertie Carvel
#56. It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.
Umberto Guidoni
#58. I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.
Mikhail Prokhorov
#59. I realized that if I was going to assume the responsibility of writing about my home, I needed narrative ruthlessness. I couldn't dull the edges and fall in love with my characters and spare them. Life does not spare us.
Jesmyn Ward
#60. I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.
Solange Knowles
#61. The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.
Confucius
#62. Men had been threatened by women from the days of Pandora, the first woman, & would not spare any efforts in order to rule over womankind.Depriving women of clothes was the first thing to do in order to put women at a disadvantage. And it also turned women into playthings from formidable foes.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#63. There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.
John Owen
#64. You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. Carey
#65. When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!
Edward Carpenter
#66. I'm making better than two million a year, but it's hard work. The luxuries and pleasures I enjoy in my spare time keep me in condition to do that work. Carnegie and Frick have more money than I have, but I'm getting more value for my dollars than they are.
Charles M. Schwab
#67. The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
Jessamyn West
#68. I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just relax and just think. But most of the time, it's swimming or talking.
Lewis Pugh
#69. It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.
Hesiod
#70. Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.
Henry James
#72. The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper
#73. I don't want anyone hurt because I made a wrong choice, God. I need all the wisdom and guidance You can spare.
Karen Witemeyer
#74. Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
Yann Martel
#75. Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#76. Please, don't spare my self-confidence, sir. I never take it with me when I leave home.
Max Frei
#77. Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
William Penn
#78. She's life, and I'm death. Prescott Burlington-Smyth is everything I want to be. A storm moving out of a shit situation at the speed of light, not looking back to spare a glance at the casualties of her actions. How
L.J. Shen
#79. We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.
Tommy Ramone
#80. Strange how my body and its purity have become the town's sacred possessions, yet they spare me no pity. It's as if they were the ones wronged, not me.
Julie Berry
#81. Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.
Scott Adams
#82. Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#83. A short reign does not spare the masses.
Statius
#84. We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could
Robert Frost
#85. Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. Did you have parents or did the devil just create you from some spare parts?
Jennifer Loren
#87. If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.
Dorothy Atkinson
#88. This is a rumour-filled society and if people want to sit around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics ... or masturbation.
Johnny Depp
#89. I was trying to spare her any further stress( ... )I wasn't
trying to be deceitful
Quinn Loftis
#90. English you're speaking," Matheus said. "The language that sidles up to other languages in dark alleys, mugs them, then rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary. It's the bitch-whore of languages and it owns the world. Suck on that, Rome boy.
Amy Fecteau
#91. Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.
John Betjeman
#92. You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.
Kiana Tom
#93. We all know the moon isn't made out of blue cheese ... but if it was made out of bbq spare ribs would you eat it?
Harry Caray
#94. [To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.
Frederic Bastiat
#95. I'll pray for you."
"That's very kind of you."
"I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week.
Evelyn Waugh
#96. He treats her as if he would spare her any fatigue, as if he has dedicated his life to her happiness.
Philippa Gregory
#97. We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to ... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.
Kevin A. Ford
#98. When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.
Tom Felton
#99. Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.
Joe Taslim
#100. I'm just trying to spare you hurt. Her love for Konrad is like the foundation of the earth."
"The earth sometimes shifts.
Kenneth Oppel
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