Quotes About Expenditure

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

I know there are so many rich people in this country, and yet they don't know how to spend their money.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.

The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.

America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other advanced nations.

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

For 'Neer,' we spent about Rs. 70,000 just on the boat.

MTV is known for their huge budget.

The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'

It's one thing to get the money apportioned in the budget; the other is to utilise it completely.

The most expensive thing I've ever splashed out on is... a tailor-made suit. It cost £1,400, and it's the best money I ever spent. It's a miracle thing - I put it on, and I don't look overweight.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

In spending this money, am I acting as if I owned it, or am I acting as the Lord's trustee? • What Scripture requires me to spend this money in this way? • Can I offer up this purchase as a sacrifice to the Lord? • Will God reward me for this expenditure at the resurrection of the just?

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them." —C. S. Lewis

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

I suspect the problem comes from the very word 'consumption'. Originally, to consume something means to use it up, in effect to destroy stuff. We think of a fire consuming a house. Two centuries ago consumption was associated with the dread of tuberculosis, a wasting disease.

People value happiness by what it costs.

The Fry's chain completely taps into MSE: Male Shopping Energy. This is to say that most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day—if not the week—and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.

We Russians, on the contrary, practise prodigality,' she said.