Top 100 Spend More Quotes
#1. I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
Kirstie Alley
#2. It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
Henry David Thoreau
#3. My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
#4. Vhalla wasn't exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.
Elise Kova
#5. I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
Bill Lipinski
#6. I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
Olivia Hussey
#7. A date," he continued. "That thing where two people who like each other spend more time together. You've heard of it?" "What kind of a date?" "Something you'd like. I can take you out to dinner. We can go to a bookstore and browse if you want,
Lauren Blakely
#8. When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
Placido Domingo
#9. So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.
Richelle Mead
#10. I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.
Jennifer Hotes
#11. I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.
Al Yankovic
#12. We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
Alice Waters
#13. The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.
Laurence Boldt
#14. I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.
Helen Vendler
#15. To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.
Robert Orben
#16. This is a deeply spiritual issue ... Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment.
Ed Begley Jr.
#17. We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.
Kathleen Sebelius
#18. I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.
Kim Edwards
#19. I'm just going to keep working. Spend more days in the gym, as possible. Just trying to get my game up, and just keep playing. And if it's in God's will for me to win, then I'll get it.
Dwight Howard
#20. Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.
Billy Graham
#21. It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
Warren Cuccurullo
#22. Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.
Bud Selig
#23. This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Dave Eggers
#25. If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
Sergio Aragones
#26. If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.
Dov Davidoff
#27. You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Pat Summitt
#28. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Rick Allen
#29. My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Michael Pollan
#30. To be Americanized was to be disobedient to your elders, to dress less conservatively, and to spend more time with your friends than your family. Cursing, drinking, and dating were simply unfathomable.
Nabeel Qureshi
#31. How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.
Margaret Thatcher
#32. When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
Carmen Busquets
#33. You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?
Lisa Guerrero
#34. Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
Ezra Taft Benson
#35. Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.
Tyler Cowen
#36. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
#37. We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
Edward Abbey
#38. I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
Nancy Travis
#39. Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.
Marvin Ammori
#40. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.
Chael Sonnen
#41. Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
Mark Buchanan
#43. That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
Jerry Della Femina
#44. When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.
Ernest Poole
#45. Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.
Seth
#46. Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#47. The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
Rick Moranis
#48. Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.
Michael Pollan
#49. We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.
Kim Stolz
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Flora had not seemed to mind the excessive amount of time their parents demanded from them, which had meant that he could spend more time in his room working on his model houses and less time downstairs in the den, fidgeting through one of his father's interminable Ozu film festivals.
Hanya Yanagihara
#53. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard
#54. 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
#55. It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.
Jodi Picoult
#56. The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
Steve Chabot
#57. Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.
Michael Hyatt
#58. The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
#59. Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
Holly Near
#60. We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.
Brian Higgins
#61. I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies
#62. You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
Jeff Foxworthy
#63. When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#64. Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
Allan H. Meltzer
#65. I learned if you have $100 or $100 million - if you spend more than you have, you're going to go broke.
Justin Bieber
#66. Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Zig Ziglar
#67. Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
Natalie Goldberg
#68. I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.
Shaun White
#69. Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
Danny Meyer
#70. After my touring life, I'd love to be more involved with charity. It gives me a lot of fulfillment, you know? I would love to get people who are into my music more active in charity work. In the future, when I have more time, I'd love to do spend more time on that.
Tiesto
#71. With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
Aldis Hodge
#72. Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
Richard Branson
#73. You will spend more of your waking hours at work than anything else. If that time doesn't make you happy it's a huge waste of life.
Alexander Kjerulf
#74. Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Patrick Stump
#75. After I finish PO5, I would like to get a dog. I want to be able to spend more time with my pet, and I don't have the time right now.
Scott Wolf
#76. Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
Will Rogers
#77. Hyper-communication can mean we spend more time on Facebook than we do face-to-face with the people we care about.
Brene Brown
#78. I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
Jilly Cooper
#79. I spend more time being confused than not, I answered.
Haruki Murakami
#80. People know that you can't spend more than you have.
William Hague
#81. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.
David Letterman
#82. Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.
Jessica Green
#83. If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch
#84. As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.
Jose Andres
#85. We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
Elizabeth Warren
#86. I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
Dave Barry
#87. At thirteen, I thought more about my acne than I did about God or world peace. At thirteen, many girls spend more time in front of a mirror than they do on their studies. Small flaws become obsessions. Bad hair can ruin a day. A broken fingernail can feel tragic.
Mary Pipher
#88. I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
Iris Apfel
#89. I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
Dave Matthews
#90. Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Zig Ziglar
#91. If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
Daniel Dennett
#92. I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.
Thomas Dooley
#93. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.
David Cameron
#94. US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.
Edward Snowden
#95. You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
Jeremy Piven
#96. I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
John Huston
#97. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
#98. Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.
Tallulah Bankhead
#99. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Connie Nielsen
#100. Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.
Indro Montanelli
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