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Quotes About Price

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immorality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating. Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and eerily beautiful.
~ David Shields
Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Perhaps I have simply decided that if such misadventures are the price I must pay to have you in my life, I am content to pay them.
~ Deanna Raybourn
An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
~ Bianca Baker
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
~ Walter Cronkite
The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Before I met the Jesuits, I'd never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.
~ Pat Conroy, My Losing Season
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
~ Juvenal
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It's setting a pretty high value on his own soul. I should never rate mine as being worth a lifetime of effort.' 'I suppose a person's soul is worth whatever price he chooses to set.
~ Jean Webster
She was the living effigy of everything we will never be and, in every sense of the word, she was the retard that I was and that I wasn't, she was my vanishing, wasted talent, and I was the price society paid so that I could become what she couldn't. And this was exactly what I was trying to love; what this little girl, this girl of wire, made it known she could never be; everthing that had been, or that would be no matter who we were, borne away from each of us.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing's free in this world. Pain is.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
~ Jeff Goodell
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
You can devote your life to the vision that is in your heart---if you have courage to focus your energy there. Of course, there is a price to be paid. But there is always a price...But I think the highest price is paid by those who choose the safety of the masses and blend in, becoming a whiter shade of pale.
~ Jeff O'Leary
I doubt you will enjoy it. But that is the price of change. Someone always pays.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But there would come a terrible and obliterating day when beauty was the only thing that mattered, and it mattered little if the pure part of beauty was blood. And on that day, the globes embedded in the walls hurt to look upon because the price paid for the wonders displayed within was too high. It had become a death cult, under a veneer of what was inevitable and necessary, and anything else was illogical.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Though unconditional love has a price tag, what a bargain price it is for such a reward.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.
~ Elizabeth George
The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built
~ Alfred Lansing
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
~ Alfred Marshall
Experience is never at bargain price.
~ Alice B. Toklas
It isn't a good price, that you pay for writing a poem.
~ Alice Notley