“Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.” LittlesWisdomLostWorrySubjectsCostHorseExtremesBreatheCodeEaseIslamicLoadCamels Author:Saadi
“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.” SelfHardFactsThreeSubjectsCostNonsenseRighteousSelf Righteous Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.” GivingHouseHalfSubjectsBuildingCostModelsDrawsCloudsNakedWeeping Book:Henry IV Source: Henry IV
“It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.” WayWarPlayGovernmentEconomyClearEconomicSubjectsCenturyMovementCostInventionRegulation20th CenturyVitalityIdeologicalGovernment RegulationFree Movement Author:Robert Hass
“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.” KnowsMenWorldStoriesMightSufferingGivenPaySubjectsCostStrivePunishmentPassingPassingsNew LifeRenewalRegenerationInitiationCrime And PunishmentRaskolnikov Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.” LongEyeUniverseGriefKnowingSubjectsCostDistancePatternsCreditDrivenUsualCrashCeoBorrowingThrough The EyesInterruptionsBorrowing Money Author:James Buchan