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Quotes About Costly

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
~ Greg Bear
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
Our distrust is very expensive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
~ Jane Austen
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.
~ Slug
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
~ Samuel Johnson
Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.
~ Paul Brunton
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
~ Daniel Berrigan
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
~ Hannah More
Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Note that having a large brain is biologically costly: the brain is an expensive organ to run, and large ones consume many precious calories (the human brain accounts for a whopping 20 percent of our energy expenditure).
~ David Livingstone Smith
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
~ Timothy Keller
It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.
~ L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
~ Marco Rubio
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
~ James Russell Lowell
Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
~ Thucydides
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
~ Jane Austen
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
~ Jane Austen
I am horribly poor—and very expensive.
~ Edith Wharton
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
~ Aldous Huxley