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Quotes About Cost

For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
~ Ron Wyden
Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.
~ Jeff Sessions
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
~ Matthew Desmond
I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.
~ David Ige
It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
~ Alan Alda
Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.
~ Sarah Jeong
It costs a lot to live.
~ Gillian Flynn
The price of order," I muttered. I tried to run the dog off. It wouldn't budge. "The cost of chaos," Tom-Tom countered. Thump on his drum. "Not quite the same thing, Croaker.
~ Glen Cook
Mistakes that cost lives aren't easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there's human error. It's inevitable. When doctors make mistakes, people hurt.
~ Glen Cook
Since nothing is free, to each his price.
~ Gore Vidal
no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.
~ Gregory David Roberts
pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.
~ Gregory David Roberts
If you have a chance at real happiness, whatever the cost, you have to take it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
And her forehead was always slightly creased in the centre, between the brows, as if she was grasping, in those soft folds of skin, the monstrous and pitiable understanding that no happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The game, for both of us, is to discover the fair price. That's the only way to know what anything costs.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I looked at the face—the long, fine nose and wide brow and upward curving lips—and wondered, not for the first time, and not for the last, if my love for him would cost me my life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
~ Arthur Henderson
The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.
~ Chris Meledandri
When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there's no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character.
~ Greg Daniels
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.
~ Philip Johnson
My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
~ Warren Spector
If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.
~ Roy H. Williams
No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.
~ Mazie Hirono