The Cost Quotes

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

To dream costs nothing.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.

By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.

It costs a lot to build bad products

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

It costs you something to do good!

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

The greatest cost, namely time.

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.