Quotes About Expense

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

We walked up to the first rack and I paid with another hard currency card and -Wow, that was three times the price of my last transient hostel. It's a good thing I don't have to eat.

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.

prison cell upgrade: $82 per night.

Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

That which costs little is less valued.

Turnovers are by far, your biggest expense. The fewer you have, the more money you will make.

It was also so expensive that I actually gasped when I heard her daily rate, and this is coming from someone who didn't think twice about spending twenty bucks to buy the movie Split on iTunes because she didn't want to wait two weeks to rent it.

A variation of Get Rich Quick schemes was robbing Peter to pay Paul, or benefiting one person at the expense of others. The origin of the phrase is open to dispute, but one account traces it to the 1500s in England, when the lands of Saint Peter's Church at Westminster were sold to fund repairs at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

Every free thing has an invisible cost attached to it.

The dates arranged necessitated expensive cross-country plane trips, a situation that understandably left most of them languishing in solitary gloom on Saturday nights.

A square tower with four big guns would be very costly,

How do you measure the expense of an erosion of effort and engagement, or a waning of agency and autonomy, or a subtle deterioration of skill?

Cigarettes are always costly than brick blocks..... Be wise.

I can't think of it now. It costs too much.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

Everything has a price; the only question is how big.

When you bring your car into the shop, you're charged for "parts and labor," and you've never questioned for a second that the more labor it takes, the more you have to pay. Indeed, the relationship between effort and financial cost is so tight that we often talk about our everyday efforts in economic terms

t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.

The Olyix understand. You are new to sentience. Your behavior is still affected by your animal origin. You seek to advance yourselves at the expense of others." "As I said: a minority.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

And all the men of Judah replied to the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is our relative. Why does this anger you? Have we ever eaten at the kingís expense or received anything for ourselves?”