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source: Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168

topic: Cost, Littles

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

- Betty Smith

source: BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

topic: Inspirational, Forgiveness, Cost

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

- Bill Delahunt

topic: Cost, Internet, States, Sales Tax

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

- Bill Gates

topic: Numbers, Trying, Cost, Subtraction

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

- Bill Maher

topic: Party, Tea, Cost

In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.

- Bill Press

source: Bill Press (2008). “Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Discipline, Political, Cost

Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

- Bill Shorten

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Cost, Outcomes, Trusting People

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

- Billy Graham

topic: Cost, Salvation, Discipleship

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Kyoto, Cost

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Kindness, Character, Cost, Inspiring Customer Service, Kind Words

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Cost

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

- Bob Dylan

topic: Technology, Looks, Cost

That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

- Bob Goff

topic: Love You, Doe, Cost

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

- Bob Phillips

source: Bob Phillips (2015). “Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations”, p.61, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Add, Cards, Cost, Cost Of Living

In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

- Bob Taft

source: "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

topic: Jobs, Connections, Cost, Global Economy, Internet Connection

You can win, it'll just cost you some money.

- Bobby Heenan

topic: Winning, Cost, You Can Win

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

- Boris Becker

topic: Girl, Tennis, Cost

You tell them - you tell them there's a cost.....Every decision we make in life, there's always a cost.

- Brad Meltzer

topic: Decision, Cost, Life Decision

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

- Brendan Behan

topic: War, Mind, Cost, Cost Of Living

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

- Brendan Rodgers

topic: Football, Cost, Stadiums

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

- Brett Ratner

source: "Brett Ratner Exclusive Interview KITES: THE REMIX – Plus He Talks TOWER HEIST, CHAOS, RUSH HOUR 4, 3D, More". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. May 12, 2010.

topic: Cost, Stories, Want

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love....

- Brian Jett

topic: Love You, Cost, Possession, Amazing Love

Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Differences, Cost, Pay

Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.

- Brom

topic: Cost

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

- Bruno Schulz

topic: Cost, Dull, Pedantry, Narrow Mindedness, Pettiness

Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.

- Bruno Schulz

source: Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

topic: Men, Self, Cost

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

- Bryan Stevenson

topic: Support, Cost, Benefits, Mass Incarceration, Incarceration

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Cost, Dangerous, Impulse, Treacherous, Dangerous Things

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Nice, Cost, Rebellious, Crucifixion, Crucifixion Of Christ

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Determination, Cost, Species

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Government, Progress, Cost, Diminish, Heavy Burdens

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

- Cameron Mackintosh

topic: Cost, Regulation, Entrepreneurial

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: Interesting, Cost, Information

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

- Carlos Ghosn

topic: Practice, Cost, Reduction, Best Practices, Synergy

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

- Carlos Mesa

source: "Online Extra: Q&A with Bolivian President Mesa". Interview with Geri Smith, www.bloomberg.com. July 5, 2004.

topic: Errors, Reform, Cost

Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.

- Carol Browner

topic: Class, Oil, Cost, Foreign Oil

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

- Carol Burnett

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Cost, Winning Team

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

source: Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

topic: Cost, Want, Kind

we are slaves to the cost of living.

- Carolina Maria de Jesus

topic: Cost, Poverty, Slave, Cost Of Living

Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.

- Carroll Quigley

source: Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

topic: Mean, Giving, Cost, Profit Margin

Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

- Catherine Doherty

source: Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

topic: Cost, Counting, Counting The Cost

That which is priceless has no cost.

- Catherine Gilbert Murdock

topic: Cost, Priceless

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

- Charlene Weir

topic: Family, Powerful, Cost

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

- Charles A. Murray

topic: America, Cost, Poor, Social Policy

Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Christian, Cost, Sin

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 government but are no longer paid for by them.

- Charles M. Vest

source: "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

topic: Government, Cost, Use, Federal Government

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

- Charles M. Vest

source: "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

topic: Support, Trying, Cost

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

- Charles M. Vest

topic: Growth, Boards, Cost, Cost Of Education

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget

- Charles O. Rossotti

topic: Eight, Years, Cost

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Law, Sorrow, Cost

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Children, Cost, Too Much, Child Of God, Jesus Love

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

- Charles W. Pickering

topic: Feet, Abuse, Cost, Contributors, Lawsuit

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

- Charlie Norwood

topic: Ideas, Cost, Care, Rations, Health Care Costs

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Cost, May, Lovers, Villette

We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

- Chris Christie

topic: People, Political, Cost, Cost Of Living

I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.

- Chris Gardner

topic: Two, Watches, Cost

Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

- Chris Humphreys

topic: Powerful, Tools, Cost, Vendors, Highlighting

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

- Chris Van Hollen

source: "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

topic: Escaping, Cost, Poverty, Higher Education, Greatest Obstacles

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

- Christiaan Huygens

source: Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.10

topic: Cost, Earth, Dull

Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

- Christofer Drew

topic: Cost, Pressure, Currency

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.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Loss, Effectiveness, Cost, Pierce

We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness.

- Claudia Llosa

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Suffering, Tragedy, Cost

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of â€œjust this once.