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Quotes About Cost

How do you know how much to pay if you don't know what it's worth?
~ Peter Carey
Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the 'truth' with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the right way, as bringing love to the world around us and within us … that will cost us everything. For to live by that sword, as we all know, is to die by it.
~ Peter Rollins
He didn't just know there would be personal computers. He knew they would crash, that the people who came to fix them would charge heavily by the hour, and be annoying, and no good, and in the end would just tell you to buy a new and more expensive machine –
~ Philip K. Dick
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not it is right to fight. Nor do we have any notion of honor. An insult to a bear is a deadly thing. To us...inconceivable. How could you insult a witch? What would it matter if you did?
~ Philip Pullman
If there is a war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
~ Philip Pullman
T2 is thus also the first and best instance of a paradoxical law that appears to hold true for the entire F/X Porn genre. It is called the Inverse Cost and Quality Law, and it states very simply that the larger a movie's budget is, the shittier that movie is going to be. - from The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2
~ David Foster Wallace
Our nation's angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.
~ Unknown
Want costs you nothing, unless you try to spend it.
~ David Levithan
As one researcher noted, "it seems likely that males suffer higher mortality than do females because in the past they have enjoyed higher potential reproductive success, and this has selected for traits that are positively associated with high reproductive success but at a cost of decreased survival" (Trivers, 1985, p. 314).
~ David M. Buss
Were they to charge you ten cents per napkin, they would undoubtedly make them much thinner so you'd need to waste even more in order to fight back the piping hot geyser forever spouting from the little hole conveniently located in the lid of your cup.
~ David Sedaris
The mansion and its furnishings cost nine million dollars—the equivalent of more than 150 million dollars today. "Extravagance and ostentation marked every social gathering" at Marble House, the New York Times observed, and "the jewels worn at balls were valued in the millions of dollars.
~ David Von Drehle
Maybe it was this: The name of a person marked for murder is just a name, but the face makes real the cost of violence, for if we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability.
~ Dean Koontz
The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.
~ Zadie Smith
I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.
~ Bernice King
I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.
~ Piyush Goyal
The Affordable Care Act has turned out to be anything but affordable.
~ Kathy Szeliga
The Affordable Care Act was not affordable. The Affordable Care Act is not affordable.
~ Ronna McDaniel
One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
It annoys me how expensive it is to live in London, but I think that annoys everyone.
~ Les Dennis
Who rises the glass, also rises the price!
~ Honore de Balzac
El coste de perder a vuestros clientes más fieles para luego tener que intentar recuperarlos en un momento económico tan bajo como el presente será mucho mayor que el coste de invertir en ellos e intentar no perderlos».
~ Howard Schultz
Jenabai knew how much it must have cost Mastan to admit his helplessness in resolving the issue. He was always conscious of his public image—perhaps because he was defensive about his lack of education—and hated to appear anything but wise.
~ Unknown
The tens of millions of dead in the two World Wars brought about tens of trillions of profitable investments in the huge reconstructions of destroyed homes and industries and ongoing rearmament: a million dollars or more per dead body. —DARKO SUVIN1
~ Unknown
Canals are made of flat water, and flat water is difficult stuff to get hold of. It is expensive. You use locks to keep it flat when you go up hills. Sometimes, you have to take the water under hills in tunnels in order to preserve its flatness. Canals were not cheap to build.
~ Unknown