The Cost Quotes

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being.

Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for instrumental thinking. But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.

Play, intrinsically rewarding, doesn't cost anything; as soon as you put a price on it, it becomes, to some extent, not play.

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

The cost of health care and the cost of cars and fuel are huge burdens on families and businesses. We can reduce health care costs NOW by promoting biking, walking and transit.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

How much is your sin going to cost me?

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.

Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.

Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug costs down.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

Its tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.