Quotes About Cost

In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

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United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. Here

certainly luxurious for any student—1,800 euros

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

Basis points," or "bp," represent one hundredth of a percent, in reference to the yield, or cost of borrowing. "Area" is a term that simply means "plus or minus"; sometimes it is quantified and sometimes it is left intentionally undefined. This

Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result of the war—roughly 90 times the number of Americans who died. Victory could hardly have been purchased at greater cost: the U.S.S.R. in 1945 was a shattered state, fortunate to have survived. The war, a contemporary observer recalled, was "both the most fearful and the proudest memory of the Russian people."2

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation.

Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

I learned that faith isn't about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It's something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.

I realize I am different. When I'm in a particular mood, I embrace it. I realize this is at the cost of acquiring friends though.

The truth doesn't cost anything, but lies will cost you EVERYTHING.

Nothing comes freely, even that thing that comes freely to you has been paid by someone else

I come to say that you may go, and I will help you..." 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.

His fame must be worth the life he paid for it.

In any fairy-tale, getting what you wish for comes at a cost. There is always a codicil, an addendum to the granting of a wish. There is always a price to pay.

but the habits of frugality ingrained during years of perpetual worry about money, and daily, hourly, weighing of cost and benefit, meant she could never take an auto, not on her birthday, not ever.