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Quotes About Price

There were times when taking vengeance for the dead seemed too high a price for abandoning the living.
~ Robin Hobb
Had all the things in the market merely been a very low price, I probably would have scooped up as much as I could. But when everything became a gift, I felt self-restraint. I didn't want to take too much.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Evil can do anything, for a price.
~ Lois Lowry
A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
no argument of his could hope to dam the flow of words that poured over the spillway of Price Macomber's lips.
~ Louis L'Amour
Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom
~ Louis Menand
To avert overbuilding and internecine price wars, Morgan decided to spearhead a new steel consolidation.
~ Ron Chernow
First, the railroads had engaged in such fierce, internecine price wars that freight rates had fallen sharply.
~ Ron Chernow
Both refiners and railroads were struggling with excess capacity and suicidal price wars.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller paid the market price, roughly equivalent to what he paid his Standard colleagues for their stock that month.
~ Ron Chernow
Buoyed by these dividends, the price of Standard Oil shares leaped from 176 in 1896 to a high of 458 three years later.
~ Ron Chernow
Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace could be a thousand years of darkness for generation's Viet Nam borned.
~ Ronald Reagan
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
~ Ronald Wright
Pero la fama también tenía su precio. No paraban de dar entrevistas y de ser reclamados en todas partes y Pierre, disminuido por la enfermedad, se sentía angustiado por el tiempo que eso les robaba del trabajo.
~ Rosa Montero
And that is how Mowgli was entered into the Seeonee Wolf Pack for the price of a bull and on Baloo's good word. Now
~ Rudyard Kipling
Plus when you get down to important moments in life like this your upbringing always seems to kick into over-drive no matter what religion or philosophy you happen to prefer as an adult or as an older kid like me. In a crunch us Christians like to think God even sets the price of airline tickets.
~ Russell Banks
Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination
~ Ruth Ozeki
Am I crazy? she asked. I feel like I am sometimes. Maybe, he said, rubbing her forehead. But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.
~ Ruth Ozeki
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
~ Sally Malcolm
A question I have often asked is, 'What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?' What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of freedom. (Interview, The Hindu , 2012)
~ Salman Rushdie