Quotes About Cost

A destabilized climate is the cost of deregulated, global capitalism, its unintended, yet unavoidable consequence.39

I could never afford to look past survival, especially not for anything as insanely expensive as happiness, and I don't believe in it anyway.

Justice is expensive," Tharkay said. "That is why there is so little of it, and that reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

Lack of harmony and cooperation between the railroad management and the workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their freight and passenger rates, and this, in turn, has increased the cost of life's necessities to almost unbearable proportions. Here, again, lack of cooperation between a few leads to hardship for millions of people.

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

The free schools of America, and the free public libraries, do not impress people because they are free.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

A volte ci sono prezzi che non si possono pagare col denaro.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

When you've got society calling you a burden and talking about how much money you're costing the state, it's bound to impact negatively on your mental health.

The mentality in Washington is, 'Look what our government - what our government can do for the American people.' We've got to get away from that mentality, and realize it's too expensive. We can't afford it.

The human cost of austerity goes far beyond the period in which a country's economy endures those methods.

I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

gospel, and a cheap ministry, and a cheap membership, and a cheap communion of saints, etc. But when his obedience comes to be chargeable, when his obedience to divine commands may cost him his health, his strength, his liberty, his riches, his estate, his friends, his credit, his name, etc., then he retires, then he cries out, It is a hard saying, who can bear it? John 6:60. This is a hard commandment, who can obey it?

Y aún hay una forma de explotación más criminal a sus ojos: la explotación del tiempo, ese delito que consiste en cobrar una prima por el mero transcurso del tiempo, es decir: los intereses, y abusar así, para ventaja de unos y a costa de otros, de una institución divina y universal para todos como es el tiempo.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.