Quotes About Price

Tales tinha o direito — mas não a obrigação — de usar as prensas caso houvesse um súbito aumento na demanda; a outra parte tinha a obrigação, mas não o direito. Tales pagou um preço pequeno por esse privilégio, com uma perda limitada e um grande resultado possível. É a primeira opção de que se tem registro. A opção é um agente da antifragilidade.

dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.

the price difference appears to be small enough to be negligible

Les générosites en amour se payent cher.

Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

The Norsk Hydro director general offered to give France the heavy water on loan, with no price attached, and told Allier that Norsk Hydro would provide France with first claim on what was produced in the future.

É o preço que se paga, minha querida. Não dá para deixar sua marca sem coletar alguns egos ao longo do caminho.

I was only kidding about the hundred, she says. oh, I say, what will it cost me? she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look, I say, I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.

For I know that all things have their price,especially when they are advertised as being free

the people come into the bar night after night for the same old show which he will one day end alone blowing his brains to the walls. the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.

and each temporary escape has a permanent price. neither drink nor love will see you through.

I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit," said the travel agent. He was clearly trying hard to be helpful: "It's not as if you'll need them where you're going, is it?" "Is it possible to find a better price by booking me on a different routing?" I asked. "I'm very attached to my limbs." (Quaint and old-fashioned, that's me.)

A study in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that every $1 increase in the price of gasoline is associated with an additional 1,500 motorcycle deaths annually.10

Is it a metaphorical accident that the cranium will fuse in months to come, thus ensuing the illustrated close-mindedness, the inevitable, tragic separation of I from the World? The ego always wins, of course. And at what price?

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was 'Everybody's got a price.'

La oferta y la demanda dicen que los precios por encima del mercado crean excedentes invendibles, pero esto no ha evitado que Europa haya insistido durante décadas en la regulación de los mercados de trabajo, lo que ha llevado a un desempleo propio de los tiempos de la depresión. BRYAN CAPLAN

No matter how you spin it, forgiveness is costly. Regardless of how big or small the offense, canceling a debt and absorbing the cost is going to hurt. But the parable shows us that not forgiving also has a price, and it is higher than the price forgiveness demands.

if the market system had not arisen naturally, it would have been proclaimed the greatest invention in human history. For market competition leads a self-interested person to wake up in the morning, look outside at the earth and produce from its raw materials, not what he wants, but what others want. Not in the quantities he prefers, but in the quantities his neighbors prefer. Not at the price he dreams of charging, but at a price reflecting how much his neighbors value what he has done.

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. So