Cost Quotes
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
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To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
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It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.
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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
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A smile costs about $240.
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I screwed up there, and it probably cost us the game.
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Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
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Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.
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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.
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[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.
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Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
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The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.
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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.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
