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Expendables Quotes (page 2)

We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable."Meaning I gave you what you wanted?"Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked. Orson Scott Card
The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain. Robert Frost
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that... George Orwell
Having passed through the Wall," the expendable asked Loaf and Olivenko, "you returned into it in order to retrieve this boy?"Olivenko and Loaf answered simultaneously."We're soldiers," said Loaf."He's our friend," said Olivenko. Orson Scott Card
Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest."Drunk?" I objected."You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again. Stephenie Meyer
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort. Charles J. Givens
David Strathairn quote: "So much money and energy is expended making a film that I..."
So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends. David Strathairn
Bryant H. McGill quote: "Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend..."
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. Bryant H. McGill
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. Max Stirner
Eric Hoffer quote: "Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a..."
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
Ted Williams quote: "All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces..."
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. Ted Williams
Richard Helms quote: "It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic..."
It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. Richard Helms
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. Anna Julia Cooper
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste. Daniel Starch

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