Quotes About Cost

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.

La conversión no se trata de poner al convertido en un cómodo sillón y llevarlo sentado al cielo. Es el comienzo de una tremenda batalla, en la cual cuesta mucho obtener la victoria. De allí, la enorme importancia de "calcular el costo".

Do not speak only of the uniform, the pay, and the glory; speak also of the enemies, the battle, the armour, the watching, the marching, and the drill. Do not present only one side of Christianity. Do not keep back "the cross" of self-denial that must be carried, when you speak of the cross on which Christ died for our redemption. Explain fully what Christianity entails. Entreat men to repent and come to Christ; but bid them at the same time to "count the cost.

War is the greatest of teachers, and not all of its lessons are bad. Their cost is just so terribly high.

Stupidity is always expensive

An average guy makes a date with a girl. It costs him $100, $200. I make a date with a girl, it costs me nothing. I come up to her house. She wants to go out. I let her go! What's my business? I have to follow her around?

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

Later, she calculated that the dead men's flight alone had cost over sixty-eight thousand dollars. "What if," she asked, "somebody had simply invested that amount in their villages to begin with?

The true coronation of character is love. The true test of love is self-sacrifice. He knows not how to love who knows not how to suffer for love's sake. The love that costs nothing is worth—what it costs.

Of self-sacrifice the Cross is the sublimest of all illustrations. It has cost God something to love.

It was one thing to pursue your passion at any cost and quite another to make someone else pay the bill.

As Ravi Zacharias said, "Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.

Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.

Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It was youth's gift not to feel its debts.

What a testimony Daniel had that even his enemies knew he would be faithful to God although it would cost him his life. Baldwin

Nice girl, dear boy. Oh . . . I shrugged. You know. Most attractive. Cheaper than central heating. I'm sure.

Love is the mistery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound to duty, unable to choose, suffering, at the mercy of social ideals. Humanity both crucified and marching towards the cross. And I was free, I was Peter three times to renounce -- determined to survive, whatever the cost.

AIR VII—Oh London Is a Fine Town Our Polly is a sad slut! nor heeds what we have taught her. I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter! For she must have both hoods and gowns, and hoops to swell her pride, With scarfs and stays, and gloves and lace; and she will have men beside; And when she's dressed with care and cost, all tempting, fine and gay, As men should serve a cucumber, she flings herself away. Our Polly is a sad slut! etc.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

Sounds awful. No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days. How much will it cost? Three thousand bucks. So we save money? Absolutely. When do we leave? High noon, Christmas Day. They stared at each other for a long time.

In the U.S. there are over two million people locked up, and it takes one million employees and $80 billion in tax dollars to take care of them.