Quotes About Spending

I made very good money and spent all of it every week. I lived paycheck to paycheck...

They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.

I am getting desperate with the inability of the men there to understand what can be spent on military weapons and what must be spent to wage the peace.

promised, returned the furs he had safeguarded), and she'd have some spending money left over. She also knew she'd have to unload some of her real estate before the

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Time is how you spend your love.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.

Will spent £120 on a silver picture frame, and a vase that he said was "absolutely vile" for another £60. I

Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.

The other was, simply, that I didn't really have an appetite for spending.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

People would be happier, and in the long run wealthier, if they bought basic, functional appliances, automobiles, and wristwatches, and invested the money they saved for future consumption; yet, Americans in particular spend almost everything they have—and sometimes more—on goods for present consumption, often paying a large premium for designer names and superfluous features.

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

Nationally, 22 percent of Americans reported overdrawing their bank accounts at least once in the previous twelve months,

The consumer society, directed at making us happy, achieves the opposite. It encourages us to spend money we do not have, to buy things we do not need, for the sake of a happiness that will not last.

The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

Wine and wenches empty mens purses.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.