Quotes About Costly

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.

The most expensive sex is free sex

Commercial interests capitalize upon people's expectations of perpetual health. The exploitation of these expectations creates a market for products which are not only useless and costly but also carry risks. The perception of pain in one's joints, muscles or head has become a target of many different pills.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

When resources become relatively scarce and relatively costly, it suddenly does make sense to invest in coaching and training in order to extract the maximum value from "medium-grade ore.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

This last journey itself teaches the disciples that to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross. Jesus speaks sharply to halting, halfhearted followers. The way of discipleship is costly: it demands total commitment, complete devotion and allegiance to Jesus and the kingdom of God (Luke 9:57–62). "Whoever wants to be my disciple," Jesus says, "must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me" (9:23; cf. 14:27).

Sanguine was an expensive cloth dyed blood-red –

More costly to America than its "war on terrorism" and our unpaid 19-trillion dollar debt in 2016, is the hidden price tag of systematically dismembered, stolen and incarcerated families and the human rights violations in America's multi-billion dollar failed Foster Care, Adoption and Prison industries.

A little knowledge may or may not be a dangerous thing. It will certainly soon be more expensive.

Inspection to improve quality is too late, ineffective, costly. Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

Litigation is expensive. I could lose. I'm aware of that.

Besides being a nasty habit that made her hair smell and stained her fingers, it was an expensive one.

Here on a golden chair was seated the prince of Wales in a lovely ermine cloak and a small but costly crown.

Wu is seen taking a breath as if to speak . . . but the former taikonaut lets it out without saying anything. Her silence in this moment was surely spurred by conflicting desires—her duty to her team on one hand, versus her duty to maintain the secrets of her homeland on the other. With every word tantamount to a chess move, her decision to take no action here would prove a costly blunder. And an unnecessary one.

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins.