Quotes with cheap

  • Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
  • When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.
  • North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
  • I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.
  • There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
  • Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
  • To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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  • Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Franklin P. Jones Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • N. Coward Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barry Levinson Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Graham Greene Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Billy Bush E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Education is the cheap defense of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Arlen Specter Effective security measures do not come cheap.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Samuel Butler Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ronald Reagan History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
    Speech, 16 jan. 1984
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Benjamin Harrison I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
    Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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