Top 100 The Price We Pay Quotes
#1. In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty - an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present.
Ransom Riggs
#2. In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
S. Jay Olshansky
#3. Adults have
the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct.
When we "grow up" we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and
sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of
loss.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
#4. 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
#5. Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate
#6. Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.
Steve Maraboli
#7. Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.
Robert B. Parker
#8. You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.
Anna Lappe
#9. The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson I
#10. The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.
Eartha Kitt
#11. The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.
Gail Caldwell
#12. Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain De Botton
#13. If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.
Peter D. Schiff
#14. Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.
Stefan Klein
#15. Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Isabelle Holland
#16. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#17. ( ... ) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.
Steven Pinker
#18. Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.
Ross Turnbull
#19. Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.
James A. Baldwin
#20. The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.
Peter Cundill
#21. The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
Carl Sagan
#22. Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.
Nawal El Saadawi
#23. So when the ruling ideology enjoins us to enjoy sex, not to feel guilty about it, since we are not bound by any prohibitions whose violations should make us feel guilty, the price we pay for this absence of guilt is anxiety.
Slavoj Zizek
#24. You have to risk your heart to find love. It's the price we pay for a chance at bliss.
Sweden Reese
#25. Dead is nothing more than the price we pay for this privilege of having lived at all.
E.M. Crane
#26. The road is a lonely, exhausting, invigorating, and living thing, but the wonder of seeing things we never would have dreamed of makes it worth the price we pay to leave the safety of home
Zak Bagans
#27. Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst
#28. The price we pay for being different may be severe.
Unknown
#29. Wisdom is precious because of the price we pay for it.
Jody Day
#30. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
Sigmund Freud
#31. This is the price we pay, that the only way to take our life is death.
Stebby Julionatan
#32. We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.
Soseki Natsume
#33. death was a natural phenomenon, albeit a sorrowful one for those left behind, but one that every man and woman must accept as the price we pay for life.
John Boyne
#34. Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.
Darryl Cunningham
#36. Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.
Mark Rippetoe
#37. Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Robert Casey
#38. my own name. Do you know what Queen Elizabeth wrote after 9/11? "Grief is the price we pay for love.
Heidi Joy Tretheway
#40. Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
Thomas Sowell
#41. Flies are the price we pay for summer.
Ann Zwinger
#42. Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
Thomas Lynch
#44. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#46. The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.
Carl Sagan
#47. The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.
Hatef Mokhtar
#48. The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That's what segregation means. You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.
Raoul Peck
#49. Accidental shooting death, they argue, are just part of the price we pay for freedom ... and besides, that sort of thing would never happen to me; I'm too cool-headed.
Stephen King
#50. The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.
Jacob Bronowski
#51. As Americans, we have marched a long way down the soul-destroying road of socialism, atheism, and totalitarianism. It is the price we pay when we turn away from God and turn to government to do everything for us. It is the formula by which nations become enslaved by their own leaders.
Ezra Taft Benson
#52. Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.
Joe De Sena
#53. The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
Daniel Gilbert
#54. Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Thomas Sowell
#55. journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will,
Dean Koontz
#56. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
#57. Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.
Alex Himelfarb
#58. Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.
Toni Sorenson
#59. Our culture encourages us to pursue pleasure at all costs, to look for what will please us in the present and not to think about the price we might pay in the future if we do not delay gratification.
Anonymous
#60. It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price - in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.
Arianna Huffington
#61. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Oscar Wilde
#62. The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.
John Reid
#63. We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.
Barack Obama
#64. The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.
John Shelby Spong
#65. The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.
Robert H. Jackson
#66. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.
Lynne Truss
#67. We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.
Jerry Kramer
#68. The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.
Wynton Marsalis
#69. We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.
Stanley Hauerwas
#70. You can either plan to be eternally vigilant and ready, eschewing life as we know it, or be willing to enjoy life and pay the price.
Jeff Grubb
#71. There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.
F.B. Meyer
#72. Eventually we have to "settle up" and pay the price for our ethical violations. Just remember the old line that says, "You can pay me now ... or you can pay me later." Often you can buy some time, but when you "pay later" you'll probably have to pay more.
Price Pritchett
#73. To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
Lars Larsen
#74. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'
Ronald Reagan
#75. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Tony Dovale
#76. It had enough room for all of us at a price we could easily pay off in ten years or so, which wasn't too bad, considering that it was in Key West and the town was founded by rapacious pirates.
Jeff Lindsay
#77. There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
Vance Havner
#78. Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.
Radhanath Swami
#79. The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.
Ravi Zacharias
#80. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.
Sarah Jo Smith
#81. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
L.M. Montgomery
#82. It's also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed.
Arianna Huffington
#83. If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
Dave Brat
#84. Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
Lech Walesa
#86. How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children ... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?
Martin Amis
#87. I told her I don't think grief is a price we pay for love, but rather that it is a part of love. When death comes, I think the grief is to be experienced the way the joy was experienced before - and if we experience it intimately, grief and joy are not separate, and both are love.
Barry Graham
#88. The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.
Norman Cousins
#89. Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all.
Louise Doughty
#90. There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
Warren Moon
#91. We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
Janet Morris
#92. We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
Robert Kennedy
#93. The difference between the 'cost' and 'price' of life's learnings..
'Cost' is calculated over a period of happenings, good, bad ugly..
'Price' is what we pay to 'reduce','bear' or 'feel good about the cost..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#94. We looked into and tested the Airbnb website and found the inquiries generated were at price points substantially lower than the market is prepared to pay us directly. It was clear that there were no real synergies between the level of our offering and what Airbnb clientele is looking for.
Harry Triguboff
#95. Right now we're both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar for silence. It binds us together, but I don't want him to pay the price for the parts of me that are used and broken.
Courtney C. Stevens
#96. We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.
J. Oswald Sanders
#97. We are all living in some sort of a hell, Elena, all of us, but we don't make someone pay the price for our deeds, do you know why? because everyone of us chooses his own hell, the one that makes him most comfortable.
Juan Jose Millas
#99. Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company.
Francis Webster
#100. Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.
Jermaine Jackson
