Quotes About Cost

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

For every gift, there is a cost. For every cost, there is a gift.

Now Lu wonders if her father worried that moving up through the political ranks would cost him that adjective, beloved. Certainly, almost no politician is described that way anymore. Even the people who vote for you didn't seem to like you that much.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Money is completely fungible, and so every penny spent on one thing could be spent on something else. The question all of us need to ask ourselves is whether that something else might actually make us or our loved ones happier.

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The food represented a considerable investment: 1,252,909 maravedís, nearly as much as the cost of the entire fleet

The official accounting of the expedition put the cost at 8,751,125 maravedís, including the five ships, provisions, salaries paid out

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

The cost of war is a lifelong legacy borne by children.

Going to war is like going to law - the only certain outcome is the cost

The purpose of the appeal was to open a subscription list by which signatories pledged themselves to support the cost of printing a limited edition, of which they themselves would be entitled to one or more copies, depending on the amount pledged. This was the usual means at the time [1836] of enabling the publication of an expensive book…

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Sixpennorth of halfpence?

Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: What then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.

We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

This was Good Profit 101: providing the best hassle-free service to our clients at the lowest cost to them and attracting the best employees based on the opportunities we offered. Our goal was—and still is—to be the counterparty of choice to our customers, vendors, communities, and employees.

Good food ain't cheap, and cheap food ain't good.

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

Never buy a what you do not want, because it is cheap...

It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.

education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.