Top 42 Exacts Quotes
#2. There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Flora Lewis
#3. The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
Amy Lowell
#4. Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it
Margaret Atwood
#5. Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
Gabriel Faure
#6. You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
Sam Nunn
#7. Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
John Dewey
#8. The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
Tom Hanks
#9. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
#10. By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
Honore De Balzac
#11. These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value.
Erika Johansen
#12. Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.
Tama J. Kieves
#13. A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
Luigi Pirandello
#15. Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.
Carl Sagan
#19. The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased, is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ. And if he is not the God of Jesus, he does not exist.
Brennan Manning
#22. I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more ...
Andre Aciman
#23. Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.
Julia Glass
#24. Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
#25. The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico
#26. A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
William Hazlitt
#27. If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
#28. Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
William Osler
#30. God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#31. Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes. A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman
Daniel James Brown
#32. And is there any reason, we ask as we shut the book, why the perspective that a plain earthenware pot exacts should not satisfy us as completely, once we grasp it, as man himself in all his sublimity standing against a background of broken mountains and tumbling oceans with stars flaming in the sky?
Virginia Woolf
#33. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.
Cesar Chavez
#34. Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Auguste Escoffier
#35. Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
Lee Goldberg
#36. Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.
Gary Keller
#37. The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.
Sue Grafton
#38. The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.
Robert M. Morgenthau
#39. Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.
Adam Levin
#40. The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
#42. I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.
Mitt Romney
