The Cost Quotes

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

That which costs little is less valued.

You can win, it'll just cost you some money.

The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

There’s an opportunity cost to everything.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.

It costs money to stay healthy, but it's even more expensive to get sick.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.

If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that escalating healthcare costs.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

College costs are out of control.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

A better domain name will lower your lifetime marketing costs.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.