#spent

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#actually #announced #bureaucracy #congress #effort

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#children #else #i #knew #life

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#amount #apparent #because #books #bosnia

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#be careful #careful #coin #determine #how

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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. ↗

— Terry Savage

#bet #confiscated #could #earnings #economy

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

— Kathleen Sebelius

#companies #fighting #i #insurance #insurance companies

I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#eventually #i #keyboards #led #park

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe