It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

Joy, has no cost.
Marianne Williamson

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

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

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
Stephen Harper

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse