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“The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born”
― Halldór Laxness, Independent People

“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.”
― Janet Flanner, Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939

“You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today...
(Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)”
― Nelson Algren

“We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.”
― Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4

“Fru Linde: "Man mÃ¥ jo leve, herr doktor."
Rank: "Ja det er jo den almindelige mening at det skal være sÃ¥ nødvendig.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and a smoky, serious husband and perhaps a pair or silent, serious daughters, and the flowers were an act of resistance against the raw, bare lot with its raw house sticking up from the raw earth like an act of sheer, inevitable, necessary madness because human beings have to live somewhere and in something and here is just as outrageous as there because in either place (in any place) it seems like an interruption, an intrusion on something that, no matter how many times she read in her Bible, Let them have dominion, seemed marred, dispelled, vanquished once people arrived with their catastrophic voices and saws and plows and began to sing and hammer and carve and erect. So the flowers were maybe a balm or, if not a balm, some sort of gesture signifying the balm she would apply were it in her power to offer redress.”
― Paul Harding

“Every action that we take exacts a cost and produces consequences. Nothing can be undone.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I want you to know the actual cost of being truly sensual. Your Soul. That’s how expensive it is.”
― Lebo Grand

“Irony is when people buy you gifts yet the cost is your happiness.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Living alone is so fucking expensive in New York.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You can live well here. Compared to the top 40 metro areas in the nation, Charlotte has the 12th lowest cost of living.”
― Harry Hoover, Moving To Charlotte The Un-Tourist Guide

“These poor people have learned to endure day to day economic agony. It’s routine in daily life for them. They are so accustomed to facing economic pain that poverty doesn’t hurt them anymore. Extreme negativity in their life drove learning endurance and their accomplishment to endure extreme conditions is ‘positivityâ€� they mastered”
― Sadashivan Nair, Negative-Positive and We

“Ah yes, the joys of free enterprise, which is never free of anything be it taxes, bills, or stress.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Everything costs something.”
― Zara Hairston

“Briefly, the book’s central arguments are these:

1. Rapid productivity growth in the modern economy has led to cost trends that divide its output into two sectors, which I call “the stagnant sector� and “the progressive sector.� In this book, productivity growth is defined as a labor-saving change in a production process so that the output supplied by an hour of labor increases, presumably significantly (Chapter 2).

2. Over time, the goods and services supplied by the stagnant sector will grow increasingly unaffordable relative to those supplied by the progressive sector. The rapidly increasing cost of a hospital stay and rising college tuition fees are prime examples of persistently rising costs in two key stagnant-sector services, health care and education (Chapters 2 and 3).

3. Despite their ever increasing costs, stagnant-sector services will never become unaffordable to society. This is because the economy’s constantly growing productivity simultaneously increases the community’s overall purchasing power and makes for ever improving overall living standards (Chapter 4).

4. The other side of the coin is the increasing affordability and the declining relative costs of the products of the progressive sector, including some products we may wish were less affordable and therefore less prevalent, such as weapons of all kinds, automobiles, and other mass-manufactured products that contribute to environmental pollution (Chapter 5).

5. The declining affordability of stagnant-sector products makes them politically contentious and a source of disquiet for average citizens. But paradoxically, it is the developments in the progressive sector that pose the greater threat to the general welfare by stimulating such threatening problems as terrorism and climate change. This book will argue that some of the gravest threats to humanity’s future stem from the falling costs of these products, rather than from the rising costs of services like health care and education (Chapter 5).

The central purpose of this book is to explain why the costs of some labor-intensive services—notably health care and education—increase at persistently above-average rates. As long as productivity continues to increase, these cost increases will persist. But even more important, as the economist Joan Robinson rightly pointed out so many years ago, as productivity grows, so too will our ability to pay for all of these ever more expensive services.”
― William J. Baumol, The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

“Cost of living is costing the life of the living”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“If you are always spending a dollar here and a dollar there, you will never have enough dollars to invest and share.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“Retirement is when your financial statement says: Relax I’ll take it from here.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“Children are like sponges, absorbing their parents' attitudes and behaviors towards money. It's crucial for parents to be mindful of their financial actions and lead by example.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“When parents openly communicate about money matters, they empower their children to develop a healthy understanding of financial concepts, fostering a positive relationship with money.”
― Linsey Mills, Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips, and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age

“Children observe their parents' reactions during financial challenges. By demonstrating resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness, parents can inspire their children to overcome financial obstacles with confidence.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“By instilling a sense of delayed gratification in their children, parents can teach them the importance of patience and long-term financial planning, preparing them for a prosperous future.”
― Linsey Mills, Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money

“I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.”
― Kin Hubbard

“The cost of life is what you are prepared to do to sustain the standards you desire.”
― Steven Redhead, Life’s Events In Focus