Cost Quotes - Page 40

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Health care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care.

I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!

Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization is off the table... Social Security, as a matter of fact, is a better investment now than the stock market. There's a higher return. There's guaranteed cost-of-living increases. Privatization you have to worry about the value of your account.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

Knowledge without action cost money

For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.

You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!

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

I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.