Cost Quotes - page 3

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or 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)
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. View quote
Jean Chrétien
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood. View quote
Viktor Yanukovych
I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. View quote
George Carlin
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game. View quote
Susan Sontag
What is perceived as a cost by some will turn out to be the competitive advantage of Europe by helping maintain a well-trained, secure workforce, open to change. View quote
Jacques Delors
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. (James Anthony Froude)
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. View quote
Maya Angelou
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. View quote
Al Gore
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod. View quote
Steve Jobs
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. View quote
Stephen Harper
If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own? View quote
Peter Singer
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history - the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. View quote
Frederick Douglass
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. (Theodore Kaczynski)
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. View quote
Kate Chopin
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. View quote
Joel Spolsky
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love. View quote
Louis Sullivan