Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.
I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street.
I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.
We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation. . . there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public. . . the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.
All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
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.
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
I want people to like me but not at my expense.
What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache. ' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense
When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
