#pensive

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? ↗

— George C. Wallace

#air force #been #bombers #bombing #complaining

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#before #buy #buying #crazy #expensive

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#expensive #flights #hotels #player #professional

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers. ↗

— John Lanchester

#luxury #price #rich #richness #wealth

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#even #expensive #fashion #more #t-shirts

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#adapted #books #containing #education #expensive

Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#came #closeness #delaware #delaware state #families

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#across #difficult #expensive #harder #having

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cost #democrats #economy #expensive #focused

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#expensive #political #wars #winners