Quotes About Cost

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

There's a saying in engineering: You can build things cheap, fast, or right, but not all three.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

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

God has commanded the sacrifice of praise, and if it doesn't cost you something, it isn't a sacrifice.

The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer—no matter what he believes in.

We should remember that there are few pleasures greater than promoting your moral enthusiasms at other people's expense.

a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.' Oscar Wilde

The butcher's bill was too dear.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

We all understand that freedom isn't free. What Romney and Ryan don't understand is that neither is opportunity. We have to invest in it.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

We don't want to put new technology in that would cost teams more to compete with.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.

While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for its advertisements.

If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

You have no idea how expensive it is to look this cheap.

Maybe there is a point to this banality after all. If I travel to see my mother on the train now the fare is £2.70 for a day return, a tenfold increase on 1970 adult prices; but in the 91/92 season it now cost £8 to stand on the terraces at Arsenal, a thirty-two-fold increase.