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“In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

“If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Maintaining proper relationships with vendors is very crucial in bringing down the cost of your products and sourcing the perfect raw materials.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“In business, it's really important to keep operating costs low. You don't want your business to be a spendthrift business because spendthrift businesses eventually eat through all their earnings.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“The federal government could make a Rolls Royce affordable for every American, but we would not be a richer country as a result. We would in fact be a much poorer country, because of all the vast resources transferred from other economic activities to subsidize an extravagant luxury. [...] To have politicians arbitrarily change the price tags, so that prices no longer represent the real costs, is to defeat the whole purpose [of an economy: to make trade-offs, with the prices of a market economy representing the costs of producing things].
Reality doesn't change when the government changes price tags. Talk about "bringing down health care costs" is not aimed at the costly legal environment in which medical science operates, or other sources of needless medical costs. It is aimed at price control, which hides costs rather than reducing them. [...]
Whether in France during the 1790s, the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik revolution, or in newly independent African nations during the past generation, governments have imposed artificially low prices on food. In each case, this led to artificially low supplies of food and artificially high levels of hunger.
People who complain about the "prohibitive" cost of housing, or of going to college, for example, fail to understand that the whole point of costs is to be prohibitive. [...] The idea [that "basic necessities" should be a "right"] certainly sounds nice. But the very fact that we can seriously entertain such a notion, as if we were God on the first day of creation, instead of mortals constrained by the universe we find in place, shows the utter unreality of failing to understand that we can only make choices among alternatives actually available.
[...] Trade-offs [as opposed to solutions] remain inescapable, whether they are made through a market or through politics. The difference is that price tags present all the trade-offs simultaneously, while political 'affordability' policies arbitrarily fix on whatever is hot at the moment. That is why cities have been financing all kinds of boondoggles for years, while their bridges rusted and the roadways crumbled.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

“What the world needs today are alliances that improve the lives of people by creating opportunities and not cheap public relations stunts. Where I come from we say 'kwa ground vitu ni different'.
[G7 Summit, June 12, 2021]”
― DON SANTO

“Decreased capabilities almost always correlate with increased costs.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most.

Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“This all makes me think about how often blessings are just burdens in disguise. It reminds me of how gifts always come at a cost â€� how everything great is terrible.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Not all expensive meals are delicious, and not all delicious meals are expensive.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Every finding costs a casualty, every search done makes you victim. Every though makes you easy as a victim.”
― Deyth Banger

“blackmail never ended. it only bought time. but time was in limited supply. it would last only as long as his money did.”
― David Morrell, The League of Night and Fog

“I don’t charge for the words I write. I charge for joining them together.”
― Daniel Kemp

“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

“You can determine how much you value something by the price it costs to take it away.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“The government never wanted to end the SARS injustice, that wasn't the agenda. The goal was to curb the spread of the protest across the country which they had achieved. But at what cost?”
― Olawale Daniel

“Costs come mostly in the form of irreplaceable time.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“The extremely high costs of hurricane and flood insurance may be the end of Florida’s heyday!”
― Steven Magee

“Even those too lazy to vote feel it their birthright to blast our elected representatives from every direction. We complain bitterly when we do not get all we want as if it were possible to have more services with lower taxes, broader health care coverage with no federal involvement, a cleaner environment without regulations, security from terrorists with no infringement on privacy, and cheaper consumer goods made locally by workers with higher wages. In short, we crave all the benefits of change without the costs. When we are disappointed, our response is to retreat into cynicism, then start thinking about whether there might be a quicker, easier, and less democratic way to satisfy our wants.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“The way energy industry costs are going, I think we are on our way back to living on 10 acre lots filled with trees for firewood!”
― Steven Magee

“I always think a new car is better for someone who does not want to deal with unreliability issues and its associated costs.”
― Steven Magee

“Death is the most expensive Thing â€� it costs you your Life.”
― Sino Melo

“Crypto bros routinely claimed that anonymous, untraceable payments on the blockchain would somehow help the world's poor. But it seemed like none of them had bothered to look into what their technology was actually being used for. Tricking Filipinos into going into debt for a pipe dream based on Smooth Love Potions was bad enough. But aiding and abetting enslavement?”
― Zeke Faux, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall