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Quotes About Expense

They drive an Avis Grey Lady, a car that costs the same as a modest house.
~ Denise Mina
Scapegrace: Back then, I was full of ideas, I was going to renovate the whole front of the pub,, and extend out to the west, maybe get in a music system a little dancefloor. In the end, I decided not to. Too expensive, you know. And, like, nobody wanted to dance so. Skulduggery: Vaurien, if you're trying to kill us, there are quicker ways than telling us your life story Valkryie: Less painful too.
~ Derek Landy
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If society were only relieved of the waste and expense of keeping a lazy class, and the equally great expense of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even the occasional lazy individual.
~ Emma Goldman
The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.
~ Amy Dacyczyn
So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.
~ Amy Dacyczyn
Has to pay for his company. If you take my meaning.
~ Amy Timberlake
Ma non esiste una qualità che non abbia un costo. Più bella e rara la qualità, più alto il costo
~ Andrea De Carlo
he was taken in a secr[e]t council & you told him you had paid my expence &c—200 Dr Foster said he never had a secret interview.— with Dr Goforth. and stated what he [blank] [p. [83]] Joseph have I ever misused you any way? Foster. said I do not feel at liberty to answer this qu[es]tion under existing circumstances.— did I ever misuse you? do not feel at libe[r]ty to answer under existing circumstances.—
~ Andrew H. Hedges
Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
~ Raza Jaffrey
There is value in education, but, as we do with anything else, we should start being careful to weigh that value with the price tag that's attached to it.
~ Kat Timpf
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
~ Charles Platt
Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.
~ Cory Booker
As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
~ James Surowiecki
If I have to do my tax online, the government should pay for my Internet hook-up, darling.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
~ Tammy Duckworth
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
~ Nathan Deal
Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.
~ Ted Lieu
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
~ Jim Ramstad
The other big budgetary expense is national defense. America spends more on our military than do China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, and Germany combined.
~ Robert B. Reich
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
~ Robert Byrne
Who can justify the expense of a six-lane highway through the middle of a small town that anticipates growth? Who would want such a road through their town?
~ Robert C. Martin
judge all things by what they cost you.
~ Robert Greene