Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.
Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge
That which costs little is less valued.
While it costs us a lot to adopt children, it cost God the blood of His own Son.
It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.
I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.
A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars. ’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.
Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
Careless talk costs lives.
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs
It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs