Quotes About Costly

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

Costly grace…is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

In effetti quando faceva compere in un grande magazzino i vestiti e gli utensili che non le sembravano connotanti risultavano sempre i più costosi nel loro genere. Chiaramente, se eri abbastanza ricco, potevi comprare la trasparenza.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

Jag flirtar flitigt med flickan Lycka, Med gumman Otur förblir jag gift; Min älskarinna är fru Fortuna, fast hon bedrar mig och är dyr i drift.

What is got by begging is dearly bought.

Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon

Dragoste gratuit? nu exist?; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este c? pre?ul ei a fost pl?tit deja.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's too expensive.

La ilusión? Eso cuesta caro.

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

When you take the long view of many similar decisions, you can see that paying a premium to avoid a small risk of a large loss is costly. A similar analysis applies to each of the cells of the fourfold pattern: systematic deviations from expected value are costly in the long run – and this rule applies to both risk aversion and risk seeing. Consistent overweighting of improbable outcomes – a feature of intuitive decision making – eventually leads to inferior outcomes.

Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

Los datos sugieren que el optimismo es algo muy extendido, pertinaz y costoso.

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.

meant it. For the first time in his life, he was both free and safe, as costly as the accomplishment had been. Then

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

It's very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn't a problem for me.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.