Expended Quotes

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

(He also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing: visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Still, most of his energy was expended in the classroom, where he learned how to read and write Mandarin.) After awhile, I gave up writing, ... But I still could comprehend the characters.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

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.

When a mass of matter is to be removed a certain force must be expended; and upon the proper economy of this force the price of transport will depend.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.