#pensive

What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#expensive #less #material #much #new

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

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

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

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

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#buy #clothes #expensive #them #you

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#been #clothes #even #everything #expensive

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#expensive #film #least #most #our time

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#america #care #cheaper #common #costs

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#expensive #global #global warming #incredibly #long-term