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No cost is too heavy for the preservation of one's honor.

Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So there is a cost of waiting, and it's huge. That's an important thing to see.

Patricia Jennerjohn

But there isn't 100 acres in a central area. That would be hard to do. And think of what it would cost.

John Hillenmeyer

Those turnovers right at the end of the (half) cost us dearly.

Deron Collins

We actually sell them below cost.

Stan Stephens

The sky is the limit on what the complications can cost.

Barry Schwartz

They don't have to go on medications, which have side effects and a cost.

William Vollmer

Cost is a consideration. But that's not to say wine companies can't afford it.

Scott Nester

This got our point across at almost no cost.

Burt Odelson

The airline business is not a very profitable one because the capital cost needed is huge.

Gao Hongfeng

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Hisashi Hieda

We do not mark up the cost of energy. Our customers pay the same price we do.

John Maserjian

The cost of doing that, to have a dramatic impact, will be between $100 and $200 for most small buildings.

Dan Abrams

We've got very aggressive cost controls implemented, and those are starting to take effect.

Paul Otellini

It is driving up the cost of health care because physicians are facing more challenges.

Aaron A. Farmer

It's anybody's race. If they can win it, we can win it. It's that close. One mistake in a turn can cost you the race.

Doug Kelly

It doesn't cost any tax money. It's common sense.

Katherine Freund

This was not a cost-effective decision. It was a very expensive decision.

Christopher Russell

It shouldn't cost people money to do their job. We're trying to catch up with the spiraling cost of gas.

Joseph Garcia

That's a concern, ... is very tough on the cost of fundraising.

Chuck Hurley

It is cost-effective. If you spend a little bit more, it will last longer.

Janet Moran

There is no cost to the county for this program.

Tammy White

We haven't been advised of any new cost-cutting programs by United Airlines.

Joseph Tiberi

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Keith Sweat

I have no idea how much it's going to cost, but it's getting done.

Warden Ramon Rustin

It will boost the cost some. We don't know how much yet, but we certainly think that is part of it.

Richard Corley

It'll cost a few hundred dollars, but it shouldn't exceed $1,000.

Jesus Leal

We are now making the cost and convenience benefits available to businesses too, starting with smaller businesses.

Bill Murphy

I made a mistake back there that cost us. You can't automatically think someone is behind you to help out.

Randy Jones

This is a very different cost structure, though it wasn't accomplished without a lot of blood being shed.

Marc Richards

You're making more than the loan is costing you.

Dave Ross

It's breathtaking to me that two light poles can cost $135,000.

Thomas Crabtree

Offset the soaring cost of fuel.

Pietro Lunardi

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Laurence J. Peter

With the cost of gas on the rise and more competition, they're not making a lot of money right now.

John Hill

This time we will hold the meeting at any cost.

Abdur Razzak

We're working with industry to find out what should be the content and then determine how much it will cost.

Dean Jones

Being absorbed into the school district does not add to cost savings.

Bj Brooks

Does it really matter if the thing's being utilized 20 percent if it only cost $2,000?

Rimas Buinevicius

With the cost of gas, that's going to be a big lick.

John Christopher

The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Ruth Graham

We can probably adapt to most of these issues, but we do not know how much it will cost us.

Jonathan Patz

If my innocence will cost me my life, so be it.

Peter Fleming

A Whopper cost $2.39 before the storm and $2.39 after the storm.

Glen Helton

The conditions were awful but the bounce of the ball, plus a couple of unacceptable lapses in concentration, have cost us.

Tony Rea

Our main cost is people ? salaries and staff.

Steve Miskin

We will also pursue grants to help pay the cost.

Chris Boone

But if Dell exploits the cost reduction.

Charlie Wolf

Wow this place must have cost a million bucks.

Frank Fazio

I don't even want to think what college will cost then.

Lindsay Nygren

It would cost us in the long run.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I'd like to see this cost placed directly on the team.

Richard Vernon

If workers are going to use the services, it's going to cost them more money.

Paul Fronstin

Even if there was a way for us to reduce the cost of the process, ... That doesn't mean it would cost the customer any less.

Jim Ward

The cost of our products is going to have to go up in order for us to stay in business.

Jack Moore

If you procrastinate, it's going to cost you, literally.

Joanne Veto

The cost efficiencies are staggering.

Steve Shaw

It would cost a lot of money to move to Division I.

Joe Cardona

It's a better way to amortize the cost of Super Bowl ads. The goal is more places to get your ad seen.

Seth Palansky

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

Ben Manski

It will cost an extra 15 cents to 30 cents per ticket for most riders.

Jim Allison

The ballot measure will cost taxpayers more than it will save them. It's going to really backfire.

Wade Buchanan

The smoke detectors are free. It doesn't cost anybody anything. All you have to do is just let us come in.

Rob Taylor

The rush to Indian call centers was driven by cost.

Howard Rubin

The cost of the project itself is $155 million.

David Oman

I totally love redoing a place, but had to put that in as a cost factor.

Keith Lichtman

You lose your privacy, but the cost is reasonable.

Jim Kearns

That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head.

David Adler

I don't see them getting beat. That (tie) basically cost us (a piece of the championship).

Anthony Palumbo

We were sluggish in the first half. And it really cost us.

Leonard Perry

There is a cost to having a good community.

Mark Heath

It could have cost us our contract. It affected our relationship with the schools, for one thing.

Sky Blaylock

The biggest cost to the exterior is replacing and sealing windows.

Mike Carson

That's staff salaries. That's the only cost they have for the club there.

Wendy Atkinson

If you got this from your vet, it would probably cost about 30 or 40 dollars.

Susan Smith

It will become more price competitive. There is no reason why organic should cost more than regular.

Linda Gilbert

We think the low-cost market is set to explode in Europe.

Michael Cawley

There would be a cost for expenses of the commission, for commission staff, for computers, ... But it would be approximately half of the cost now because there would not be duplication.

Mark Herron

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

Cost the county some dollars and cents.

Dick Reed

At any cost, he was not going to be arrested, ... This is a case about one of the oldest motives in the world: to get away.

David Rubin

You may not be able to influence the cost of diesel or fertilizer, but you may be able to influence your lease.

Paul Patterson

What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.

Phil Gartside

It's very expensive, but it has become the cost of doing business.

Stephen Tonjes

Evidently your cost chain wide is wacko.

Jere Chapman

Certainly, gas plants cost a lot less money to build than a coal plant.

Roberto Denis

For our corporate clients, the assurance that we can get them the best possible deal outweighs the cost of our service.

Gavin Stevens

We spend only 30,000 yuan to build our houses, but their homes cost 300,000 yuan.

Du Chongan

The prediction as of right now is that it's going to cost between $23 billion and $25 billion, but I think it's going to be a lot more than that.

Sergio Gabrielli

The Microsoft platform is very competitive with RIM devices, and is attractive as a lower cost alternative.

Peter Pawlak

There was not much cost saving to the city to do both right now.

Celeste Lachenmyer

It will totally enhance the tourist experience at no cost.

Robert Alexander

There is a cost associated with DRM, and that is lost sales of content.

Dave Goldberg

I looked at the cost-benefit ratio, and I decided I didn't need to go.

David Britt

He wasn't himself early in the match. He got too far behind. The thing that cost him was the back points.

Tom Borrelli

We got a really phenomenal, phenomenal deal. A comparable celebrity would have cost two to three times more.

Courtney Hill

We need to review all contracts for cost, benefit and performance.

Tom King

If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so.

Carol Adams

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Doug Larson

I cost us the game.

Gary Cismesia

There's no excuse for Miguel or myself not to get that run in. It probably cost us the game.

Josh Willingham

If you react after the fact, it will cost more, and things will be harder to get done.

Fred Piccolo

They have money, and they want to fly. They want low-cost but something that is smart and socially acceptable.

Ajay Singh

Sometimes I make a little more money, sometimes I don't. It all goes to cover the cost of having bands.

Mike Soule

We considered other possibilities. But we had to consider cost, renovation and space.

John Newman

It cost us all of our money to fix it.

Shannon Williams

We believe their speculation regarding cost is significantly inflated.

Kathleen Vokes

We decided to put it in the letter and let the commission do what it wishes. There were people who said it doesn't cost anything to ask.

Gus Cooper

It's plays that on most days we make. Today, it cost us the game.

Ben Humphrey

The cost of doing business is skyrocketing.

Randy Hannan

It's not necessarily replacement of your loan cost. It's replacement based on the value of your automobile.

Bobby Ann Clark

It allows us to get that cleanup done at no cost to the taxpayers.

Bill Bray

The only thing we don't include is the cost of your meals or airline tickets.

Dick Wheeler

This is a world class experience, all at an affordable price. We are not a low-cost carrier and we do not intend to be one.

Vijay Mallya

There is now a cost control mentality in place that will continue to prevail.

Chris Adams

Cost is the bottom line. Everything costs more.

Gayle Bradley

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Sergio Marchionne

Some cars cost more upfront, but save you more money in the long run.

Philip Reed

If the market is the U.S., then Mexico and China are very close in cost.

Jan Lindholm

This is a significant problem that is endangering Americans and costing us billions and billions of dollars.

Parris Glendening

If we backed out after Thursday, it would have cost us $100 per seat. But luckily, we didn't have that problem.

Steve Norton

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Todd Mark

Katrina, tsunami, cost of living now.

Bill Hentzler

It's hard to tell because all Medicaid people don't cost you the same amount.

Tim Burgess

We cover 80 percent of the cost for single employees.

Gary Mudd

We were able to do this at a pretty modest cost.

Paul Constans

We could pass an ordinance that accomplishes the same purpose. Then, it won't cost us anything.

Councilman Tom Poole

We cannot continue to charge somebody what it had cost us in 1994. Our costs have gone up 70%.

Howard Marder

You are passing along the cost of the affordable unit to the entire project.

Skeet Jernigan

In no way does that cover the full cost of shipping.

Philip Damas

This is really a PR move for Delta. They want to convince people that they're now a low-cost carrier, but that's not really the case.

Terry Egger

We do have to recover the cost for building the new capacity out there that the content providers are expecting us to provide.

Jim Cicconi

I put in 8.5 gallons, cost me $8.41. So that's the way I buy gas. ha, ha, ha.

Larry Behrendt

We would have liked to have gone to the opening ceremonies, but the tickets cost $2,400 apiece.

Gail Johnson

We're priced almost at cost.

Rajen Sheth

We have been a manufacturing center for more than 100 years. These practices have not come without a cost to the environment.

Phil Schrantz

No one complained about cost then.

Louis Benjamin

The cost of aluminum went way up. Once this supply is gone, that's it.

Roger Henderson

We don't know, we won't know for several months, how much this will cost us.

David Nichols

They tend to become more cost conscious in periods of shrinking dollars.

Jacques Gansler

It's going to cost the state a lot of money in the long run.

Robert Cohen

The cost financially is great, but the emotional cost is even greater.

Jeanne Marsh

China, with its low cost of labor, has a comparative advantage in shoe manufacturing.

Chong Quan

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Flip Wilson

They have cost certainty, ... And they have money.

Blue Jays

Data services are still low-cost.

Philip Redman

In the late '90s, manufacturing was looked at as a cost to be controlled. It wasn't looked at strategically.

Jeff Hutchinson

These are tough issues. The cost of benefits has exploded.

James Berg

What we do is look at the bottom line and what it will cost business - the truth is (it) doesn't cost business.

Sharan Burrow

It is hard to budget for this. There is some control and rules. You can't absolutely say this is what we will pay, ... The cost does go up and down.

Jack Barnes

To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost prohibitive.

Louise Dix

But for us it's cost-neutral.

Margaret Wittenberg

A lot of that will need to be rerouted. That's going to add cost and time.

G. Logan Jordan

We just made too many mistakes in a row and it cost us.

Gary Ward

In the long term, the benefits could be much, much greater than the cost.

Bill Dennis

You have no idea of what getting into a league is going to cost until you get into it.

Mike Strickland

It's very destructive in terms of cost to the park.

Bob Love

It was a distraction and cost us in fundraising, but it's what I believe in.

Marc Holtzman

Clearly to make something residential could cost a lot more than to clean up to industrial standards.

Gary Chandler

Doesn't it cost a lot of money to have all these truckers sitting here?

Amanda Lamb

There will never, ever, ever be a contract without some form of cost sharing.

Bill Jones

Our strategy consistently has been to focus on profitable growth, not growth at any cost.

Charles Lee

There are little things you can do that don't add a ton to the price. But builders have a filter when you start talking about changing things. They see more cost.

Paul Barnett

As we get further away from the incident, we're finding what would be the cost of the repairs would be considerably less.

Richard Knight

I thought we outplayed them and really should have won, but we made some careless mistakes that cost us.

Fredrick Thomas

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Bronwyn Belling

I'm intrigued by some of these start-ups in the Web 2.0 space. They don't cost an arm and a leg, but they have no business model.

Ross Levinsohn

They didn't pay any more than it cost us. It's my church. I'm not going to make a profit off them.

Ben Kugler

It helps them keep track of fuel and the cost.

Chris Lange

You could save up to $300 on the annual cost of auto insurance.

Carolyn Gorman

The bottom line, it's going to come down to cost.

Greg Ortale

It cost $675 to go five miles.

Jim Hanson

All the bids were well within our projected probable cost.

Pete Crawford

The cost of international roaming is completely disproportionate.

Kip Meek

A big game like this, one mistake can cost you.

Will Stoskopf

Compared with 2005, this represents an increase of about $100 million. Also, we will acquire 310 locomotives at a cost of about $550 million.

Matthew K. Rose

The cost of living is so high in Northern Virginia.

Lee Cobb

We didn't do Medicaid because we determined it would cost us almost as much to apply as we spent.

John Law

This family is shredded. There is a human cost to this.

Wesley Cordova

The Legislature has explicitly turned its back on determining the cost of adequacy.

Bill Chapman

Probably it's going to cost a lot, and most people are not going to have cancer, but how else are you going to find the people who do?

Lloyd Smith

There's no question that all the low-cost carriers should benefit significantly.

Julius Maldutis

For the cost of roughly two and a half martinis, you can have access to the entire archives.

Martin Nisenholtz

With the rising cost of health care, we really need to stay ahead of this.

Stephanie Nelson

This agreement will serve both the employers and the employees and provide us with cost certainty.

James Berg

Right now, we've got our projected cost out to 2010.

Judy Anderson

This is not new money. This is future cost avoidance for the counties.

Mark Lavigne

The loft beds cost a little more, but we thought it was worth it.

Brian Dawson

The risk of investing in Chinese contemporary oil paintings is low, since the cost is comparatively low.

Wang Yi

Let's do it. Absolutely. We will bear the cost.

Jim Petro

It's ridiculous, isn't it? The rumor is our cost will go up another 30 cents tonight.

Jim Mitchell

We'll fix it now and worry about the cost later.

Jerry Shaw

We have a huge hidden cost.

J. Fred Giertz

As competition is reduced, prices go up. You will be able to get where you are going, but it will cost more.

William Hunter

Bunkers cost money and they're maintenance intensive.

Rusty Petrea

His capacity to make life difficult for George Bush would be at the cost of burying himself.

Claudio Loser

It's nonbinding. The advantage is, it doesn't cost anything.

Teri Erickson

No one can tell you how much it's going to cost -- it's a blank check.

Johnny Rutherford