Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.
Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.
The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
There are good reasons for not wanting to host the Olympics. The Games can be costly and, in spite of their patriotic overtones, can unintentionally expose a nation's weaknesses to the world.
For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
Climate change is threatening ecosystems in South Carolina, while making it less safe and more costly to live along our coastline.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
Film-making, in itself, is such a risky, costly-yet-uncertain business that despite being wealthy, 90 percent of people don't become producers.
An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.
For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.
As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.
Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.
Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value
Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
We don't need something as large and complex and costly as the Affordable Care Act, because it can't work.
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.
I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
Yes, we have taken a place in Juhu and it has been a costly affair since it's about 25,000 square feet in size.
Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.
Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.
This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
I voted to remain because I thought it was costly and complicated to leave the EU, and that is clearly still the case. But there are opportunities and challenges.
There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
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