The Cost Quotes

A devious spark lit through Al, making me smile. One way. It costs too much, he said. “There’s no inflation in the ever-after, Al.” Call it a recession then. One way.

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that's a great investment.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’

We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.

Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

When the effort fails, is it worth the cost?

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

Civility cost nothing.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

I can't believe food costs money.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.