#less

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#football #golf #golf course #homeless #housing

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#feels #happiness #knows #less #than

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#consciously #less #peace #rate #understand

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. ↗

— William Barclay

#christ #cross #face #his #involves

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#extreme #go #homebody #house #i

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too. ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#effort #enormous #job #lose #put

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#care #character #fortunate #high #know