The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.
Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. Aha, my little dear, I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.
It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding
A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.
It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right. ' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong.
You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.
I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.
Politeness costs little and yields much.
How much is your sin going to cost me?