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Quotes About Expenditure

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.
~ Richard Epstein
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
~ Dolly Parton
So far as my coin would stretch; and where it would not, I have used my credit.
~ William Shakespeare
In 1820, Americans spent $ 12 million on liquor, an amount that exceeded the total expenditure of the US government.
~ David S. Reynolds
wound down in 1842 at a cost of nearly $60 million
~ David Treuer
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
~ Christopher Morley
Mitsubishi spent $25 million to showcase its cars in Universal's 2 Fast 2 Furious.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
The labour of digging and watering, the anxious zeal with which I pounced on weeds, the poring over gardening books, the plans made as I sat on the little seat in the middle gazing admiringly and with the eye of faith on the trim surface so soon to be gemmed with a thousand flowers, the reckless expenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of my position in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher, all, all had been in vain.
~ Elisabeth Von Arnim
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
~ Mariano Rajoy
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
~ Dale T. Mortensen
I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.
~ Quentin Tarantino
It's expensive to police the world.
~ Scott DesJarlais
I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.
~ Emma Healey
Compared to Congress, BJP is spending huge money in the elections. BJP keeps claiming that it is not corrupt. Then where is it getting such huge monies from?
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The real cost is always more than just the money you shell out.
~ Jeff Nichols
To make an entire country as big as America aware of a movie costs so much money.
~ Lexi Alexander
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
~ Bill Gates
Hugh Jackman, he's so tall and big, he had to eat so much. It's like Chris Hemsworth. You have to eat so much and spend so much money on food.
~ Tom Payne
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.
~ Peter Brimelow
Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world. Obesity
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The same economic relationship is at work underground, where low-density land-use patterns require greater lengths of pipe and conduit to distribute municipal services. This high ratio of public to private expenditure helps explain why suburban municipalities are finding that new growth fails to pay for itself at acceptable levels of taxation.
~ Andrés Duany