#spending

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#books #efficient #even #forces #go

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#character #i #i think #like #people

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#friends #going #going home #grounded #home

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#homeland #just #little #mission #off

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#family #friends #i #i love #i think

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bear #being #carry #duty #even

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back. ↗

— Mike Lee

#back #been #certain #certain level #country

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home. ↗

— James Levine

#day #doing #factor #fathers #home