Top 100 A Price Quotes
#1. There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.
Peter Drucker
#2. We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
K.P. Yohannan
#3. Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
Adrian Rogers
#4. Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that statement was plain to see. Reacher put the guy out of misery. A single shot, close range, behind the ear. An unnecessary round expended, but good manners had a price
Lee Child
#5. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola Tesla
#6. It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi ?
Donald Rumsfeld
#7. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.
Eula Biss
#8. Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.
Brom
#9. Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.
William Borah
#10. Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
Anne Bishop
#11. I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift
#12. Love paid a price so hope could become a reality.
Susan Gaddis
#13. Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
Criss Jami
#14. Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
Mark Foley
#15. Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don't have a price tag.
Bear Grylls
#16. Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it
Margaret Atwood
#17. Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.
Jeff Foxworthy
#18. How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Augustine Of Hippo
#19. Nothing is truly free. Every gift has a price, paid for by someone in coin, favors, expectations or goods.
Things get a little sticky when Life shows up wanting to collect on something you thought was free.
Always ask the price.
Jaime Buckley
#20. This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.
Barbara Kingsolver
#21. Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.
Benilde Little
#22. It was always impossible to put a price on making your enemy shit their breeches.
Scott Lynch
#23. Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
Paullina Simons
#24. I am thankful that sacrifice is non-negotiable, and that counting the cost in giving to another is foolishly assuming that we can put a price on sacrifice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. Remember, every treasure comes with a price.
Kevin Kwan
#26. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#27. The family landed in the Western Hemisphere in the person of Roger Blake Wolfe, who arrived with a price on his head.
James Carlos Blake
#28. It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
Maureen Johnson
#29. No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Walter Raleigh
#30. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
Tony Hoare
#31. People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.
Tim Kaine
#32. It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
Eric Burns
#33. There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.
Kenneth Rexroth
#34. The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin
#35. Everything has a price, but not everything should be for sale.
Frank Sonnenberg
#36. You pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.
Jean Little
#37. The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan
#38. Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.
Douglas Clegg
#39. Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#40. Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.
Tana French
#41. I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
Todd McFarlane
#42. One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.
Amy Irving
#43. He'd protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.
Claudia Gray
#44. A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.
Paulo Coelho
#46. People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
Samantha Mumba
#48. There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#49. I have stood in a department store, and seen something written on a price tag that told me I had to leave at once, but in different clothing.
Lemony Snicket
#50. There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
Joseph Addison
#51. We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
Aaron Levie
#52. There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
Gisele Bundchen
#53. We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.
Joel Coen
#54. If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.
Julia Gillard
#55. No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
George Eliot
#56. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.
John Wooden
#57. Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn't give it to you, because He knew you wouldn't be able to pay it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#58. I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
P. J. O'Rourke
#59. Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#61. Oh," she said. "Yes." She was warm with the wine, with the shape of the plan she'd begun to form, and could not keep the merriment from her voice, the joy of reaching out into the world and altering it. "There will be a price.
Seth Dickinson
#62. Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.
Drew Karpyshyn
#63. We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.
Bill Hybels
#64. I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario
#65. Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
Pierre Bourdieu
#67. If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.
Eda LeShan
#68. Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
#69. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.
Parker J. Palmer
#70. They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.
Larry McMurtry
#71. I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.
Jon Oringer
#72. Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.
Martin Feldstein
#73. Alas! Where love is concerned, self-interested deception is superior to the truth itself, which is why so many men pay so high a price to clever deceivers.
Honore De Balzac
#74. She had nothing to lose when she looked into those dark limpid pools of desire...Apart from her soul, and even that she would relinquish for one night undulating on his rigid fervour. But to what end? A moment of exquisite bliss? No, she demanded an encore; even her soul had a price...
Virginia Alison
#75. I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
Al Goldstein
#76. Once you can hang a price tag on something, you can in principle put a price tag on anything, including conscience and honor, to say nothing of body parts and children.
David Harvey
#78. There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.
James Monroe
#79. Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
Bruce Jackson
#80. Sometimes it's better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price
Benny Bellamacina
#81. In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
Etgar Keret
#82. Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
Charles Spurgeon
#83. Adam snorted as he pulled on a faded green t-shirt that said "I Heart Coyotes." Yet another sign that folding my clean clothes wasn't too big a price to pay to make him happy. He didn't have any "I Heart Christy " shirts or I would have burned them already.
Patricia Briggs
#84. Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He'd made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days he could convince himself that life was like war: bitter, desperate choices were often made in the name of survival, and some inevitably survived at the expense of others.
Julie Anne Long
#85. One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.
Napoleon Hill
#86. It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
Moshe Dayan
#87. I suppose half a klick won on some alien rock has a price about the same as a paragraph gained in the storehouse of human knowledge.
Hugh Howey
#88. Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent
#89. Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#90. There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for something more. And when one person's expectations don't match the other person's, then whoever holds the highest expectations suffers. There is no such thing as cheap sex. It always comes with a price.
Neil Strauss
#91. That's the problem with you young people, always thinking everything comes with a price. An act of kindness is just that, nothing more.
Jordan Silver
#92. If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.
Norman Lamont
#93. The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution ... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.
Al Gore
#94. There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Woodrow Wilson
#95. There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
#96. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.
Charlotte Featherstone
#97. We all must pay a price for following our own paths. But ... it's not always fair to ask others to pay that price.
C.C. Hunter
#98. Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
Alex Berenson
#99. Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.
Pablo Escobar
#100. A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
Henry Ward Beecher