By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet. Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.
The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Adidas has invested so much into this collab and into me. It'd be easy for any brand, with some of the spearheads that they have in their roster, just to say, "We got this guy and that guy over there, the Pusha T thing can just be - eh. " But they haven't spared any expense, they've let their creativity run wild, and it really makes me feel that I'm a part of a family. It makes me feel like they enjoy watching the growth of Pusha T.
Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.
We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing. ' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Have your boyfriend add therapy bills to my expense tab.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.