Quotes About Cost

Tuition in the 1920s was $17 a semester;

You must keep in mind that God does have an appointment with you. There is a cost to serving Him. At the same time, you have to be wise and not careless. To deny the reality that there are some places where you cannot go is to play the fool. More important, if you have not learned to pay the smaller prices of following Christ in your daily life, you will not be prepared to pay the ultimate price in God's calling

The whole thing was a charade--the pomp, the ceremony, the goose-stepping. the salute--but the incredible cost was very real.

It's expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.

Minimum wages have not kept up with inflation (so that the real federal minimum wage in the United States in 2011 is 15 percent lower than it was almost a third of a century ago, in 1980);

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

Celibacy has few pleasures. I know, but marriage has many pains. And harems are not always what they're cracked up to be. Rarely in the long run are they worth the cost and endless bother... And if marriage has many pains, polygamous marriage multiplies those pains to an unforeseeable extent with the commotion generating from squabbling wives and contending offspring.

We pay for light, pay for water, next thing you know We'll pay to breathe harder

No matter what she said publicly, the principal of North Hammond High did not believe in rehabilitation for the young. It was too expensive, and its results were unreliable. Recidivism was high. Better to accept that with a few exceptions the young were an accursed generation, frontal lobes stunted from video games, cell phones, TV, sex-gratification by the hour. They had no sense of history and so could have no sense of the future. Equipped with state-of-the-art

si no pagamos el precio por la libertad, terminaremos pagando el precio por la atadura. De cualquier manera pagaremos un precio

Good words are worth much, and cost little. —George Herbert

BENTNECK: Ach, nothing's free! Life's a peep show, not a look-see!

If being wealthy costs you the right to relax and enjoy life, then the price of wealth is altogether too high.

It is hard doctrine, but I was beginning to understand it then, and I have not repudiated it till now: that love, not sin, costs us Eden. Love is a carrier of death - the only thing, in fact, that makes death significant.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

The cry that breaks the silence is the sound of bodies becoming fully aware of what the predatory system has cost and being fully aware as well that it can be otherwise.

Until that moment of utterance, every objective analysis of economic production in Egypt would have concluded that the pain of the peasants is a necessary, normal, even natural arrangement of labor—the cost of doing business.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no matter what the cost.

el comportamiento asertivo conlleva un costo social: la gente sincera incomoda

La asertividad siempre implica algún costo social.

views as well. The president "believes [the bill] will involve great expense;

Price is what you pay and value is what you get.