Costly Quotes

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

You have no idea how much it costs to make someone look this cheap,

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

New York vintage is too expensive!

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

Washington is too expensive.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

It's the old story: do you want a normal car, or something top of the range? That is how I am - the older I am, the more expensive I am!

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

It's unreasonable, unworkable, expensive and unfair.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.