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Nothing more costly than item that has no price. — David Mitchell

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. — H.L. Mencken

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent. — Daniel Berrigan

Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me. — Slug

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly. — James Taylor

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make. — Brian Tracy

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education. — Booker T. Washington

It is costly when not abiding by God's law — Sunday Adelaja

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed. — Donald Trump

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress. — Ingmar Bergman

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. — Ellis Peters

Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. — Richard Neustadt

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The vote has been costly. Prize it ... understand what it means and what it can do for your country. — Carrie Chapman Catt

She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard. — Paolo Giordano

It is a costly thing, looking on the true face of Love. — Rick Riordan

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott

Being an asshole is costly, but being nice is free, and it can likely earn you opportunities and even money. — Ben Tolosa

It was the dread that comes about when you are allowed to have something that seems costly and yet you're not asked for payment. — Helen Oyeyemi

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. — John Lyly

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business. — William Feather

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[ ... ] the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. — Bob Goff

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. — Herman Melville

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free. — John Piper

Now, when I read, I read not,
For interrupting tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs. — Emily Dickinson

Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost. — Wislawa Szymborska

The medicine is strong. The cure is costly. But make no mistake: What Christ did on the cross works for every man and woman - no matter the ailment. — Adam T. Barr

information is costly to produce but cheap to reproduce. — Eric Schmidt

Come, agree, the law's costly. — Jonathan Swift

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. — Benjamin Netanyahu

We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization. — Ottmar Edenhofer

Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary. — Leonard Ravenhill

Never let anyone steal your inner peace because it's too costly to obtain and much too priceless ever to replace. — Timothy Pina

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain. — Mary McCarthy

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly. — Tracy Chapman

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection. — Max Anders

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences. — Sherry Turkle

War is less costly than slavery. — Anonymous

Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it. — Carmen Busquets

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate. Costly — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How do I know that I am in Christ? Because of my trusting, costly obedience to the Word. — Alistair Begg

It is a costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I am definitely of opinion that a public worker should accept no costly gifts. — Mahatma Gandhi

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. — Theophrastus

Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends. — Eraldo Banovac

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming. — Mike Crapo

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly. — Lorii Myers

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. — Beth Moore

Ignorance is more costly than the price of a book. — Matshona Dhliwayo

With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care. — John Dryden

Honour is more costly than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind. — Paul Brunton

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly. — Nadair Desmar

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life — Catherine Helen Spence

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience. — Roger Ascham

Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "Ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. — Various

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly. — Mark Twain

meant it. For the first time in his life, he was both free and safe, as costly as the accomplishment had been. Then — James Dashner

No more free steps to heaven. — David Bowie

Display is as false as it is costly. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. — Francois Fenelon

There is nothing so costly as ignorance. — Horace Mann

Answers are free, mistakes are costly. — Danielle Tate

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. — Gary Speed

Costly gifts are from men;
priceless gifts are from God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. — Ellis Peters

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. — William Penn

Feelings can be the most costly thing in the universe. — Kasie West

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. — Jerry Bridges

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. — Bob Kerrey

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The most expensive card you'll hold in your pocket is trust, if used irresponsibly, the charges become costly and the debt is often unforgivable — Silent Dugood

Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost. — Laozi

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. — Roger Ascham

Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly! — Tom Brewer

Food is a costly antidepressant. — Michael Pollan

Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ... — Veronica Roth

Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us. — Rousas John Rushdoony

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. — William Penn

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty. — Kathryn Harrison

Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort. — Daniel Kahneman

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless. — Gerald Kersh

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. — Winston S. Churchill

The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless. — Peter George Peterson

Silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities. — Alan Bradley

Daily abandon would prove to be more costly than the reckless kinds of obedience. — Jennie Allen

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly-they must be devastating — George W. Bush

But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon — Ralph Waldo Emerson