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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead. -- James Dyson
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. -- Samuel Butler
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring. -- Sloane Crosley
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. -- Sergey Brin
The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease. -- W. Averell Harriman
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. -- W. Averell Harriman
I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over. -- W. Averell Harriman
Summer's lease hath all too short a date. -- William Shakespeare
Life is a lease and God is the landlord. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life. -- Mollie King
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease -- Margaret Thatcher
Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. -- Joseph Jefferson
We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. -- Joseph Jefferson
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. -- James Joyce
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. -- Margaret Thatcher
I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease. -- Joe Garagiola
And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time -- Meg Cabot
When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' -- Robert Redford
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease -- William Makepeace Thackeray
When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table. -- Janet Yellen
I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet. -- Aubrey McClendon
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory... -- Jean-Georges Noverre
Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization. -- Wally Walker
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion. -- Gale Norton
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies. -- Trevor Noah
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it. -- Neil Abercrombie
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it. -- Neil Abercrombie
It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life. -- Steve Vai
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time. -- Jim Varney
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived. -- Chellie Pingree
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available. -- Ira Levin
Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. -- Mitch Daniels
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward. -- Christopher Reeve
There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake. -- Ram Shriram
Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock. -- Gail Collins
I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. -- Rupert Everett
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up. -- Carl Safina
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. -- Thomas Frank
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease. -- Lucretius
My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me. -- Big Daddy Kane
We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease. -- Mallory Ortberg
All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease. -- Bob Hope
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hatin' and I know they got a reason why. I ain't gotta wonder if I wanna lease or buy. -- Nicki Minaj
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. -- Suzanne Curchod
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Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success. -- Joseph Losey
The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth. -- Al Gore
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Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. -- Alfred Billings Street
Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces. -- Michelle Bachelet
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. -- Alan Greenspan
I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year. -- Mitch Hedberg
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. -- Arthur Young
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . . -- William Shakespeare
I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy. -- Nina Campbell

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