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Quotes About Spare

whaling vessels are the most exposed to accidents of all kinds, and especially to the destruction and loss of the very things upon which the success of the voyage most depends. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship.
~ Herman Melville
It's my partner, he said, smiling. It didn't look easy for him, that smile, but it transformed him from a thin-faced freckled man with a blade of a nose to a man with sexiness to spare.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup.
~ Gayle Forman
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
~ Andrew Johnson
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! Persons, especially salaried people, who schedule their spare
~ Napoleon Hill
Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There's time enough, but none to spare.
~ Charles Chesnutt
he definitely wasn't home separating ions in his spare time.
~ Chelsea Handler
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~ Carol Reardon
It was my decision to spare you the pain of life.
~ Caroline Kepnes
you find them wreathed in knowing deprecating smiles; they beg you to spare them.
~ Georges Bernanos
If you are no well enough to procure your own dressing, you should not be upon your feet downstairs." "Oh, I am plenty strong to retrieve the robe. I am just trying to spare you the inevitable comparisons between our malehoods. Your disappointment would be legion. I am quite phearsom." "You are full of it.
~ J.R. Ward
Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.
~ Michael Connelly
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
~ Donald Judd
'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it delivers a much bigger emotional punch. Patti Smith doesn't need to embellish; she just tells her stories... and her stories are incredible.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.
~ Mike Gordon
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
~ Kit Williams
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
~ Geraldine Brooks
That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
~ Sessue Hayakawa
Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
It was drilled into me from an early age that nothing is certain and that you have to be incredibly careful and sensible with money. However, if you are lucky enough to have a little bit spare, you should also try to enjoy it.
~ Bettany Hughes
We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.
~ Kevin A. Ford
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
~ Kim Harrison
Invest your money safely. Avoid the risky lure of spectacular returns; go for an investment that cannot lose its value. This is why I have put all my spare cash into buying not shares, but thousands of penny chews.
~ Dominic Holland