“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.” GivingSufferingFightingAsksLordTeachKnowingCostLaborRewardsWoundsToilHeedCounting The Cost Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.” IfsKnowsMenNextAsksKnow HowCostCongressNext TimeSessionTalk Is Cheap Author:Evan Esar
“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.” PeopleValuesAsksAtheismCostBasesPositive Atheism Author:Rodney Stark
“I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.” PeopleIfsLongAsksEasyCostMarkStingy Author:Doris Duke
“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.” WayCultureAsksLiteratureGivenTalkingIndustryHeroCostCapitalismTheaterFinancialPopsCinemaTrendsFree MarketPop CultureFree Market Capitalism Author:Martin Scorsese
“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.” WayNeedsGivingYearsMayValuesAsksTreeCostRiversForestsAtmosphereRight WayWrong WayOld Trees Author:Paul Hawken
“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"” PeopleWayChildrenKidsAsksPoorCarCostApproachPicksDoctorsTranquility Author:James Hillman
“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.” WorldWayDoeAsksLosesWalksPathCostRiversOne WayBridgesPawns Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ...O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs.” IfsMayChildrenAsksGivenLordCostOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Amy Carmichael
“The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.” PeopleNextAsksCuttingDyingCostAidsBudgetsNext TimePeople Dying Author:Bill Gates
“There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsTryingDoeReasonAsksBehindsHalfPiecesCostFinancialApplesExpensiveCentsShelvesCandyPenniesPrudentRazorsReplacementsPlutonium Author:Arj Barker
“When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do for a living when you meet someone. A lot of the obvious things, the shortcuts we take in America - in America you can talk about money all you want. You can ask how much they make, rent they pay, how much their house costs and how much their car costs, and they'll feel comfortable telling you. But it's scandalous to ask anyone in England or France a question like that.” WantFeelsCountryAmericaAsksHouseRealizingPayCarCostComfortableEnglandObviousFranceOther CountriesShortcutsScandalousObvious Things Author:David Sedaris
“When I talk about how we're going to pay for education, how we're going to invest in infrastructure, how we're going to get the cost of prescription drugs down, and a lot of the other issues that people talk to me about all the time, I've made it very clear we are going where the money is. We are going to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share.” PeopleMadeAsksPayIssuesClearShareCostDrugFairsDown AndMade ItCorporationsWealthyInfrastructurePrescriptionsTalk To MeFair SharePrescription Drugs Author:Hillary Clinton
“The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.” KnowsWayFirstsKindMeanUseAsksOpportunitySocialEasyCompanySuccessfulCuttingCostProjectsInternalsStraightforwardEasy WayPruningTrimming Author:Reid Hoffman
“If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.” IfsLifeSuccessAsksBusinessCostMarketing Author:J. P. Morgan
“Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.” MenGivingShouldMayMeanWarEndsCountryDoneJobsYoungSufferingDiesAsksWatchesOne ThingFiguresCostSoldierCarefulBordersYoung ManBe CarefulOngoingEvaluateReluctantEvaluationCost Of War Author:Sebastian Junger
“All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.” SoulHandsEvilAsksGivenPrayerSinWalksEffortCostIntellectualGood ThingsSeekingYour SoulCombatFortitudeThrustAllureBeside YouSoul Power Author:David O. McKay