| "The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House." »William Jefferson Clinton |
| "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson |
| "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they re ended." »Colley Cibber |
| "Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." »James A. Froude |
| "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." »William Frank Buckley, Jr. |
| "The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams |
| "Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does." »James Hilton |
| "The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." »Henry Ford |
| "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." »Gore Vidal |
| "I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty." »Warren Buffett |
| "Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement." »Norman Thomas |
| "Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday." »Samuel Johnson |
| "When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all." »Janet Louise Holman |
| "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." »Robert X Cringely |
| "No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." »Harriet Du Autermont |
| "The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die" »Mark Siegler |
| "If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered." »A. Edward Newton |
| "Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." »Thomas J. Watson |
| "First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily." »William Hazlitt |
| "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill |
| "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down." »Flip Wilson |
| "The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley |
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