#expensive

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#earned #expensive #fortune #luck #smile

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#follies #mischievous #ones #very #wars

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#necessary #possible #unlikely #unnecessary #want

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#cover #debt #entity #expensive #higher

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument