Quotes About Cost

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.

I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

because it costs a lot to not be aware.

I am probably porous because it costs a lot to not be aware.

Pliny paid for his phenomena!...I've paid a bit, too...everything worthwhile has its cost!...if it's free, you're down with the shithead fraternity! blabbermouths, charlatans, the whole gang!...into the crapper with 'em! every one! right in the shitter!...it's unlistenable!...just a bunch of farts!...I'm telling you!...

The system proved successful … pretty soon they were mass-producing heroes, and in the end, the system was so well perfected that they cost practically nothing. Everyone was delighted. Bismarck, the two Napoleons, Barres,* Elsa the Horsewoman.* The religion of the flag promptly replaced the cult of heaven

We think we can transform the stranger, without cost or sacrifice, into the familiar and the known, and we can't.

They could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level. It would be a little bit more complicated administratively. But it wouldn't necessarily cost that much more money, and it would level the playing field for those who—through no fault of their own—have been dealt a big disadvantage by the educational system.

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.

Every desire has it's own demand and a price to pay.

what you don't know will cost you.

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

People pay an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment

never make the cost of saving face so high that a man must go elsewhere to show how generous he is.

The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.

and they were having some new kind of beer that tasted like aspirin and smelled like magnolias and cost more than a hamburger.

em unless you got the money to pay." Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped

The price of being a hip, swinging chick eventually had become too great to pay.

Do you have any pets?" asked Max. "Just a hamster. We used to have a cat, though." "We have a cat," said Amanda. "Her name is Priscilla. She's a snow-white Persian and she cost four hundred dollars." Four hundred dollars for a cat? I thought. Boy, you could get one free at a shelter. And you could certainly spend four hundred dollars on better things, like groceries.

Psychopaths can assume the burden of mental accounting without any obvious distress. That is no accident: They are psychopaths. They do not care about others and are quite happy to sever relationships whenever the need arises. Some people are monsters of egocentricity. But lying unquestionably comes at a psychological cost for the rest of us.