Principles don't mean anything until they cost you…

The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory…

— Noam Chomsky

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

— Brad Schneider

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

— Jessica Yu

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that…

— Garry Winogrand

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I…

— Robbin Crosby

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…

— Maya Angelou

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

— Tim Walberg

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate…

— Peter Drucker

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

— Brendan Rodgers

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost…

— Arnold Kling

“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a…

— Israelmore Ayivor

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

— William Hazlitt

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal…

— Anonymous

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite…

— William Shakespeare