| Benmont Tench |  If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Benmont Tench |
| Bette Davis | A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis |
| Bob Riley | The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
Bob Riley |
| Boy George | Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
Boy George |
| Boyd Rice | The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
Boyd Rice |
| Bruce Henderson | The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
Bruce Henderson |
| C. S. Lewis | Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis |
| Charles de Secondat | Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Charles de Secondat |
| Charles Townshend | I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.
Charles Townshend |
| Christopher Dodd | Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
Christopher Dodd |
| competition | They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
Frederic Bastiat
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| David Brin | In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
David Brin |
| David Letterman | We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.
David Letterman |
| David Wilkerson | Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
David Wilkerson |
| Davy Crockett | It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Davy Crockett |
| Dee Hock | The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
Dee Hock |
| E. M. Forster | One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster |
| E. M. Forster | Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster |
| Edmund Burke | Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke |
| Edward Everett | It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
Edward Everett |
