Cost quotes
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"You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you."
"You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind."
"We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat."
"Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours."
"Peace if possible, truth at all costs."
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"Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs."
"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."
"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."
"The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation"
"I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’"
"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."
"Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life"
"It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion."
"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation."
"If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success."
"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit."
"I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!"
"It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc."
"A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized."
"There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod."
"The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word."
"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances."
"The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy."
"My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions."
