#expense

As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools. ↗

— Jack Markell

#creating #expense #focused #government #governor

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT. ↗

— John Lanchester

#costs #expenses #paintings #worth #art

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

#fatigue #forget #grudge #love #opposition

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#cannot #community #doing #expense #feel

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#happiness #other #people

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ↗

— Scott Adams

#between #difference #expense #look #makes

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ↗

— Cato

#cessation #expenses #work

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #expense #fame #few #fruition

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible. ↗

— Isaac Butt

#attending #birth #buried #date #death