Quotes About Cost

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

Underlying this apparent impasse is the perception that the alteration of things will be destructive for both partners: the speaker is "transfixed/by your eyes cold blue thumbtacks". But she also knows that "there is no joy" in the game, and that she wants "the circle/ broken", regardless of the cost.

The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

The cost of living is first on all of our minds this important year. Yet the President [Nixon] has decided that it is a year for travel. I ask–when is he going to make a "Trip to Peking" in regard to the basic problems facing us in the United States this year? He is willing to go halfway 'round the world--yet he doesn't have time to walk ten blocks from the White House in Washington and look at the lives people are living under Phase II. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

I'd love to fly, especially with the gas prices right now.

The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing

Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

I practiced in Australia for one year as a neurosurgeon, and my malpractice premiums were only $200 a year at that time. Compare this with the $300,000 malpractice insurance fee assessed on a litigation-free neurosurgeon in Philadelphia today.

today the expense of modern warfare far outweighs any economic benefits it achieves.

personas que tienen unos ingresos fijos en términos monetarios sufrirán cuando el coste de la vida aumente

This has fluctuated, of course, with the general rate of economic activity, but it has shown no general tendency to advance with wholesale prices or the cost of living.

knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

If you receive a 2% raise in a year when inflation runs at 4%, you will almost certainly feel better than you will if you take a 2% pay cut during a year when inflation is zero. Yet both changes in your salary leave you in a virtually identical position—2% worse off after inflation.

I charge more for prophecy," Offa said, "on the grounds that what is worthless must be made expensive.

God is far too faithful to allow the prodigal life to be cost-free.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.