Cost Quotes - Page 43

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

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

Avoid pornography at all costs!

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

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

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

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

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

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

How much is your sin going to cost me?

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

A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

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.

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

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

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

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

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.