Spend Quotes - page 5

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong. (Jane Austen)

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to.

Luciano Pavarotti

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

John Steinbeck

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

William Butler Yeats

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

Denis Diderot

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

Harry Hopkins

Lord, the money we do spend on government, and it's not one bit better than the government that we got for one-third the money 20 years ago.

Will Rogers

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Nick Bostrom

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Lewis Mumford)

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a mans footprint.

Max Beerbohm

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. (Rolling Stone magazine 1997)

Robert Smith (musician)

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

Max Müller

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Hubbard

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

Richard Stallman

Life, when is spent well, is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Michael Ende

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Al Capone

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Franz Kafka

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

Ronald Reagan

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Michael Ondaatje

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