Quotes About Cost

It's critical that we lower the cost of prescription drugs and develop a health care plan that works for all Americans.

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

There has to be a period of consolidation in the IT industry. Similarly in pharma, I think India is going to be a world power. We have the lowest cost, good technology, Indian companies are gaining size.

For years I avoided loose fruit and veg - an absolute minefield - simply because it was impossible to tell how much they would come to at the till.

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.

Time is money in the shipping business.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

I watch an awful lot of television, and I get a little tired of what I see... We have about six television sets in our house, and it's less expensive for me to do a television series than it is for me to throw them all out.

I think many agree, being on the plan till 26, good idea; preexisting conditions, they all have a cost. So you have to find a way to pay for it. But it doesn't mean that you're going to keep or change. Listen, cars have tires. You can reinvent the car, but it's still going to have tires. Those aspects are components of healthcare.

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.

It is not easy to calculate the cost of land to build individual or community toilet systems. But we need to account for it when we total up the true cost of sanitation.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

Nowadays you have to pay a very high price to become a bohemian.

The end of the Sermon makes it clear that Jesus expects his followers to take up his words and live them out regardless of the cost. I know of no alternative. Take them or leave them, is what I say to myself.

It's a hidden, and often scary, cost of rebuilding something: even a perfect improvement reveals old issues hidden by the mistakes of the past.

The dentist says to his patient, "I have to pull this tooth, but don't worry, it will take just five minutes." The patient asks, "And how much will it cost?" The dentist replies, "A hundred dollars." "A hundred dollars for just a few minutes' work?" the patient asks. "I can pull it more slowly if you like.

At a cost of up to $10,000 per pod per month, it was a highly lucrative business for the NYSE. How the setup fit in with the notion that electronic trading created a level playing field for all investors was another question.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.