Spent Quotes

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me.

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

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.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.