Cost Quotes - Page 13

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

My bank is the worst. They are screwing me. You know what they did to me? They're charging me money for not having enough money. Apparently, when you're broke, that costs money.

Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.

Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt shook his head. "No. I want her badly damaged but capable of making it back to port. I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs." "That sounds like us," Gundar said cheerfully.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Every day, you always have to be cognizant of your brand. I know it can cost you [future] money, but there are a lot of things more important than money that affect your brand.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.