Thriftlessness Quotes & Sayings

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone. — Kirk Douglas

It's so French to be a cat person. — Melanie Laurent

All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again — U2

The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism. — Dora Bakoyannis

Magnus grinned. Black hair and blue eyes are my favourite combination. — Cassandra Clare

Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius. — James L. Rubart

The date is not important. The age is not important. Time is not important. Life is very fleeting. It's important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we've done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That's it. I don't feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We're very insignificant. — Oscar Niemeyer

The "virtue" of Keynes's teaching is that it praised thriftlessness, reckless spending, and unbalanced budgets and was therefore extremely palatable to the politicians in power. — Henry Hazlitt

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Boy George

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. — Ira Glass

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with. — John Harrison

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. — W. Edwards Deming

There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome.
One might be tempted to suggest togetherness or contentment , but the fact that these two other words bear definitions unrelated to each other perfectly displays why lonesome cannot be properly mirrored. It does not mean solitude, nor alone, nor lonely, although lonesome can contain all of those words in itself.
Lonesome means a state of being apart. Of being other. Alone-some. — Maggie Stiefvater