Spare Quotations

If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.

In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue - I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.

We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and professional football if I want to... Our favorite pastime is trying to take pictures of our hometowns from space.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.

Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We are looking forward to Saturday's game as we will not only have a full, team but we will even have a player to spare on the bench. Recruiting boys to play has paid off.

We're going to sue the superintendent, and we're going to sue the state Board of Education. ... It's like a three-ring circus over there. We will spare no expense to help these kids.

We found out about the grant really late. For three weeks, I spent every spare minute of my time calling people. Everybody came on board.

We reiterate our buy rating, as we believe the upside potential is greater than the downside risk from sharply lower oil prices given the strong demand, tight supply and lack of spare capacity.

We're getting everything from spare change to 20-dollar bills.

We've got a spare room, and he can come and go as he pleases. He won't have to worry about a hotel, and he'll get a few home-cooked meals from my wife. ... He's bigger than me, though, so I can't lay down the law too much.

We want Mr. Hose to do the right thing and take responsibility for his actions, and spare the family the ordeal of a trial. The evidence is overwhelming. The case is cut and dried. He was 37 years old, she was under 16, and they had sex. Case closed.

We have six or seven major hot spots in the world, any one of which has potential to shut off an amount of oil greater than the world's spare capacity. This is a problem that if it continues and escalates, we're going to see a real significant increase in prices.

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

There are very few times you can go to the Senate floor and save lives, ... We have it within our power to spare the loss of a child. It is something we ought to do.

Seven Springs has always invested heavily in the security for our guests. We will spare no expense in making sure our visitors enjoy their experience.

SEPA is busy handling highly frequent environmental accidents. It is hard for SEPA to spare more manpower and resources into pushing the regulation to every corner of the country.

She worked it out. A missed spare and she would have been out of it.

She's been a great mentor to me. She's always looking for new things to do with her students. She spends a lot of her spare time reading about her subject area, researching. She's really turned on my passion for science.

Should Hurricane Wilma's path indeed go over Florida and spare the oil infrastructure at the Gulf Coast, as the National Hurricane Center predicts, oil should drop further.

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,/ But spare your country's flag,' she said./ A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,/ Over the face of the leader came.

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

My first impression, as compared to four years ago, is that there's a lot more stuff and more lab equipment here. Plus there's also been an accumulation of spare parts, as well as trash, that hasn't been able to come back.

My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.

No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it up mentally, to bring it closer in such a way that one has to face up to the inevitability of one's own eventual demise. So, to spare ourselves this psychological trauma, we decide just to try to avoid the topic as much as possible.

If we do see additional absorption of spare labor market capacity, that could mean more rate hikes through the summer.

I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering,

I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men.

If that doesn't tell me I need to be a mother, I don't know what does, ... It's a lucky thing I had a spare bra in my purse.

There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule.

Historically, spare capacity of 1 to 2 million b/d is still very low considering all the uncertainties on supply in Nigeria, Iraq, Iran and the Gulf of Mexico and it means there's not a huge margin of flexibility if anything should happen to those producers.

I would tell her to do everything she could to spare other families this grief, to get us off this cycle of violence.

I would say that 75 percent to 80 percent of the clients I work with choose the wrong place for their files. They tuck it away in some remote location like a spare bedroom or in a basement.

It is so important that people know that any spare change that they have they should give to an organization that truly helps the needy.

I think because there are real Indian and Pakistani constituencies in the United States , we'll wind up with money for earthquake relief that may be somewhat above the norm for these kinds of forgotten disasters. I think donors still have some spare change in their pockets.

I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings,

It has been clear for a long time now that any such event would send prices skyrocketing given the world's current lack of spare capacity.

It has a positive impact on everyone. If you can spare just one hour, it will be worth it.

I will spare you a gushy description of the dive itself, except to say that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

I was living on a bunk bed in my father's spare room, ... I'm getting all these articles pumping me as the next big thing, and I'm like, do you guys know what my life is like?

It is an excellent gesture from OPEC to provide 2 million barrels a day of spare capacity to the market, ... If the market feels it needs additional crude, they're welcome to it. It's there.

I think there was a conscious decision to give our show a spare look.

I think Swedish shareholders are very adept at seeing somebody who can build. Once they've stopped building, and they are seen to being paid too much then they spare no lives at all.

OPEC is an anachronism today. This is not a market where suppliers have to manage any spare capacity. They cannot manage the short-term risk, which is going to be on the upside. What we're seeing here is a demand shock, but everybody is looking to OPEC as if it were a supply shock.

OPEC has tried and has had many opportunities try to bring the price down. At this point most OPEC member countries don't have much spare capacity. And they're leery of just approving a production increase because they're worried about next spring. What happens when all this oil is lying around and the demand goes down?

People are starting to do different things in their spare time. The most rewarding thing is that nobody really wants to stop.

Our priorities remain meeting our commitments, especially aircraft and spare parts to the U.S. military to support all their efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Our work will continue and we will spare no effort to determine exactly what happened to TWA 800,

Roger Toussaint should spare New Yorkers his disingenuous apologies. Millions of hardworking New Yorkers are being hurt by his illegal actions.

Please listen to this song. This one is called, 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,'

Our Labor Day concert has taken on a larger meaning with the devastation of the hurricane. The show is still free, but we encourage our fans to give as much as they can spare to the Red Cross volunteers who will be collecting at the concert,

Supplies are ample and stockpiles are rising. We're still lacking spare production capacity but the market is fairly happy that there's a good buffer in place in the form of inventories.

Some of the stations got nervous, so we removed the ad voluntarily to spare them from the decision of what to do about the ad.

It doesn't matter what moves OPEC makes as long as demand is growing like this, ... There will come a point when no matter how much those countries produce, there won't be extra ... and they lack the spare capacity as it is.

I might as well tell people that I abort babies in my spare time.

That would spare us some of the really bad conditions.

I was better, so they pushed him somewhere else, to another spare part they had in the movie.

We're already in the position where every refinery unit is vital just to meet demand. We don't have any spare capacity. That's what it makes it so critical.

We cautiously welcome OPEC's decisions to make its full spare capacity available to the market and to commit to a future dialogue,

We have very little spare capacity internationally to provide enough crude oil to the system to tolerate any more of these types of disruptions.

We can spare one on (the day shift), ... But when we're called, we'll go.

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

The preparation and planning that we put in place prior to the storm is paying off as we deploy recovery crews and equipment to the areas impacted by Hurricane Rita. Thanks to our advanced planning our recovery crews have the generators, fuel, and spare parts that they need to quickly restore service in areas impacted by the storm.

We are deploying a full array of counterterrorism resources. We will spare no expense, and we will take no chances, ... We will be watching and protecting the city through never-ending vigilance.

We're not seeing evidence of a lack of places. For the last couple of years we've had spare places and the market has been growing.