#pensive

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#costly #expensive #far #food #health

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#expensive #less #make #more #should

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#care #color #expensive #fur #hair

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#end #expensive #in the end #iraq #long

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#expensive #golf #i #marbles #playing

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#demands #enormous #enormous pressure #expensive #high

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

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