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"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
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"Excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." »Ayn Rand
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"Oil prices will keep breaking new records until other countries move to nuclear and alternative energy sources or we discover massive new reserves and increase production dramatically over the next few years." »Med Jones
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"Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something." »Philip Saltier
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"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant." »Margaret Fuller
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"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy." »Author Unknown
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"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you." »Elisabeth Marbury
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"There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod." »Steve Jobs
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"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter
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"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they re ended." »Colley Cibber
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"You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost." »Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
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"Old houses mended,
cost little less than new before they 're ended." »Colley Cibber, The Double Gallant, Prologue
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"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." »William Carlos Williams
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"Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play." »Jerry Coleman
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"If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists." »Jewish Proverb
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"Hobbies cost money but interests are free." »George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
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"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." »James A. Froude
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"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster." »Ansel Adams
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"Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost." »M. Scott Peck
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"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." »William Frank Buckley, Jr.
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"The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities." »Eric Hoffer
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"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor." »Mark Twain
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"If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company." »Steve Jobs
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"There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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