Costly Quotes

221 Costly quotes by 187 unique authors

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rescue is costly, but LOVE pays the price. — Mark Beeson
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the… — Timothy Keller
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. — Timothy Keller
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. — Plutarch
Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is… — Timothy Keller
While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more… — Barry Eichengreen
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would… — Andre Gide
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there… — David Talbot
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. — Hannah More
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome… — Greg Bear
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more… — Margaret Chan
In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more… — Michael Enzi
The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult… — Mark Zandi
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the… — Irvin D. Yalom
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary… — Ambrose
The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? — Horace
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and… — Thomas Sowell
It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the… — Kalakaua
Novel technologies for delivering .. vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use… — Robert J. Eaton
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more… — Julian Simon
Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it).… — Norman Vincent Peale

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