But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria

Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.
Tim Holden

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Ann Oakley

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
John Guare

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
Mason Cooley

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
Ann Macbeth

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.
Delia Smith

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Charley Reese

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
Jessica Mitford

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.
Jeffery Deaver

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
Conrad Burns

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
Alexandra Paul