Top 100 Spender Quotes
#1. To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
Evelyn Waugh
#2. It is better to be a lender than a spender.
Jim Rohn
#3. Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.
Nicki Minaj
#4. The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.
Hugo Chavez
#5. I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.
Andy Murray
#6. Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.
Roger Moore
#8. the healthcare industry spends four times as much on lobbying as the number two Beltway spender, the much-feared military-industrial complex?
Steven Brill
#9. Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates. They can't say I flip-flop because I don't. They can't say I'm weak on defense because I'm not. They can't say I'm weak on values because I'm not. They can't say I'm a big taxer and a big spender.
Joe Lieberman
#10. I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
Nancy Lopez
#11. I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
Jackson Browne
#12. All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
Ronnie Chan
#14. I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
Katrina Kaif
#15. A natural saver is great until he never spends and is tight-fisted with giving. A natural spender is great until she finds herself deeply in debt and unable to give. A natural giver is great until there are no savings when a problem arises and there is no personal enjoyment of money.
Dave Ramsey
#16. We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.
J. A. Spender
#17. The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.
Stephen Spender
#18. For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust
Stephen Spender
#19. The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
Stephen Spender
#20. I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
Dale Spender
#21. Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.
Stephen Spender
#22. Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can dois to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Dale Spender
#23. You are ultimately responsible for your life and no one else.
John Spender
#24. All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
J. A. Spender
#25. An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance ...
Stephen Spender
#26. Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .
Stephen Spender
#28. History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
Stephen Spender
#29. One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a bitter attack on the way poets were neglected. Yet there were about two thousand people present, and he was being paid five hundred dollars for delivering this attack.
Stephen Spender
#30. My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.
Stephen Spender
#31. When you read and understand a poem, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
#33. There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
Dale Spender
#34. 'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
J. A. Spender
#35. The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.
Stephen Spender
#36. You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
Stephen Spender
#37. I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Stephen Spender
#38. History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Stephen Spender
#39. If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew ... An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
Stephen Spender
#40. Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
Stephen Spender
#41. Eye , gazelle, delicate wanderer, Drinker of horizon's fluid line; Ear that suspends on a chord The spirit drinking timelessness; Touch, love, all senses ...
Stephen Spender
#42. Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale Spender
#43. Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends
Stephen Spender
#44. I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
Stephen Spender
#45. All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.
Stephen Spender
#47. Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
Dale Spender
#48. Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
Stephen Spender
#49. Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.
Stephen Spender
#50. It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.
Dale Spender
#51. All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.
Stephen Spender
#52. My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.
Stephen Spender
#53. No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.
Stephen Spender
#54. Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...
Dale Spender
#55. Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
Stephen Spender
#56. Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender
#57. A high-protein, high-fat diet that excludes all pungent vegetables and spices can be beneficial as an anger management protocol.
Charles Spender
#58. I think continually of those who were truly great ... Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Stephen Spender
#59. Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line) ... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.
Dale Spender
#60. To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
Stephen Spender
#61. What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.
Stephen Spender
#62. There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender
#63. Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.
Stephen Spender
#64. What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.
Stephen Spender
#65. Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.
Stephen Spender
#66. Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother / With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.
Stephen Spender
#68. Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.
Stephen Spender
#70. The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
Stephen Spender
#71. Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
J. A. Spender
#72. The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Dale Spender
#73. Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Dale Spender
#74. Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
J. A. Spender
#75. What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
Dale Spender
#76. When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
#77. Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
Dale Spender
#78. For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Dale Spender
#79. This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females ...
Dale Spender
#80. Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.
Stephen Spender
#81. It is like operating a new washing machine or videodisc player, all lights and buttons. You have to know how to operate it before you can understand the instruction booklet (it was written by someone who already knew).
J.-C. Spender
#82. Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.
Stephen Spender
#83. We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.
Percy Spender
#84. Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Stephen Spender
#85. When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stephen Spender
#86. When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
Dale Spender
#87. Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
Stephen Spender
#88. My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
Stephen Spender
#89. Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Dale Spender
#90. For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
Dale Spender
#91. It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
J. A. Spender
#92. Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Dale Spender
#93. Everyone has done something that they are not proud of and the more we hang onto those experiences, the darker they become.
John Spender
#94. One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
Stephen Spender
#96. So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself
Stephen Spender
#97. Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.
Stephen Spender
#98. You have the power to change your current circumstances and create a whole new reality for yourself.
John Spender
#99. Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.
Dale Spender
#100. But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
Stephen Spender
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