#pensive

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#expensive #generation #live #lives #lot

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ↗

— John Sladek

#exactly #expensive #far #future #like

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#missed #more #nothing #opportunity #than

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#education #expensive #isolation #little #more

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bucket #called #china #drink #emperor

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

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

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

— Oscar Wilde

#demoralizing #expensive #far #how #man

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

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive