Quotes About Expense

But many voters evidently saw the issue as favoring irresponsible borrowers at the expense of the responsible.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievious ones.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

It costs a lot to live.

The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.

And when it came to rigs, few were more impressive than the Deepwater Horizon. Roughly thirty stories tall and longer than a football field, this mobile, half-billion-dollar semisubmersible could function in water as deep as ten thousand feet and drill exploratory wells several miles deeper than that. Operating a rig this size cost around $1 million a day, but major oil companies considered the expense well worth it.

Los monumentos, hay que admitirlo, son piedras que cuestan una fortuna y que se olvidarían si no fuera porque estorban el tránsito.

Not all movies are movies you want to spend $14 on - and not all movies are movies you want to spend $10 on for ultra VOD, or even $6.99 on renting.

It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.

Employers' national income is a particular disincentive to employ because it is an expense without benefit.

Just as we are enhancing the customer side of our marketplace, we are also looking for ways to increase our contributor expense.

For study of the good and the bad in woman two women are a needless expense.

Donald was to my grandfather what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits.

If I put 3,000 miles a year on my car, that's a lot. If I buy them, it just doesn't make sense, so I lease them, and my company writes the whole car expense off.

It was all of a piece, all a form of aggression. Pimping the land and animals. Profit at the expense of all else. Exclusion and exclusivity. Willful ignorance and denial. As I drove, I tried to register how it felt "not to be.

The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

There are some politicians who promise something for everyone. If their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries for dinner, fattened at public expense.

The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class