Quotes About Cost

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.

GAS, GRASS, OR ASS. NOBODY RIDES FOR FREE.

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

If you developed diphtheria, spotted fever, or the plague while you were in possession of a library book, you were required to inform the library, and the book had to be fumigated before it was put back in circulation, but the library covered the cost. Three

Don't we know any. . .er. . .cheap lawyers?

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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

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

Per quanto ti faccia star male, dovrai uccidere qualcuno, perché nell'arena hai un solo desiderio, che costa molto caro.» «Ti costa la vita» conclude Caesar. «Oh, no, ti costa molto più della vita. Assassinare persone innocenti?» dice Peeta. «Ti costa tutto ciò che sei.»

Of course, all knowledge is useful. But not all knowledge is worth the cost.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

for the higher deductible on your car insurance; it will reduce your cost by as much as 30 percent, and will keep you in the insurance company's good graces.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.