80 Cost Quotes

Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out]

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Hours of research can cut months of field work. (Full quote: 'In today's world, time is the most expensive part of an expedition. Man hours spent in the archives can cut hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of time from the field phase of most projects.')

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm through I lose my desideratum.

I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!

It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.

'Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.'

To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them

When the strike started in 1965, most of our friends forsook us for a while. They ran - or were just too busy to help. But the California Migrant Ministry held a meeting with its staff and decided that the strike was a matter of life or death for farm workers everywhere, and that even if it meant the end of the Migrant Ministry they would turn over their resources to the strikers. The political pressure on the Protestant Churches was tremendous and the Migrant Ministry lost a lot of money. But they stuck it out, and they began to point the way to the rest of the Church. In fact, when 30 of the strikers were arrested for shouting Huelga [Strike], 11 ministers went to jail with them.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, 'until death doth part.'

Hey, don't drink that poison! That's $4.00 an ounce!

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

My wife wanted her face lifted. They couldn't do that. But for $80, they lowered her body.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

The merit and strength of a people are measured by their enthusiasm for freedom when the only rewards from it are anguish and martyrdom, the blood and ashes of exile, the sorrow of a house driven by the waves, and the shame of a useless life that lacks the foundation and peace of mind needed to do one's share of the common task.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

To save one life, Mr. Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that. A kindly man like Mr. Tagomi could be driven insane by the implications of such reality.

'No nation would refuse to fight an invading army because some expert argued it would be cheaper to invest in defenses against future invasions. It is not a matter of prioritising lives now over lives tomorrow.'

We did long for the pitter-patter of little feet, so we decided to buy a dog. Cheaper, and: get more feet.

TANSTAAFL. (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)

If we can't or won't define the enemy, the cost to fight such a war will be endless. How many American troops are we prepared to lose? How much money are we prepared to spend? How many innocent civilians, in our nation and others, are we willing to see killed? How many American civilians will we jeopardize? How much of our civil liberties are we prepared to give up? How much prosperity will we sacrifice? [...] I support President Bush and voted for the authority and the money to carry out his responsibility to defend this country, but the degree of death and destruction and chances of escalation must be carefully taken into consideration.

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.