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Quotes About Price

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If our value system doesn't allow us to enjoy anything without putting a price on it, we miss a great part of the beauty of life. When we bring this value system into the domain of prayer, we can never enjoy God. As soon as we start enjoying Him, we have to reflect, "Oh boy, I'm enjoying God!" And as soon as we do that, we are taking a photograph of the experience. Every reflection is like a photograph of reality. It isn't our original experience; it is a commentary on it.
~ Thomas Keating
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
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
~ Thomas Paine
The American Crisis Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
~ Thomas Paine
What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.
~ Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men's souls...yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.
~ Thomas Paine
Wat wij te goedkoop verwerven, schatten we te laag in. Het is duurte die alles zijn waarde geeft.
~ Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; it's dearness only that gives everthing its value.
~ Thomas Payne
the sort of books that cost too much unless you got them free.
~ Thomas Perry
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
~ Thomas Sowell
a cozy social atmosphere above all else. . . . For those seeking a refuge from the world, the cup of coffee they bought was really just the price of admission to partake of the coffeehouse scene."9 Starbucks is selling us hospitality.
~ Tim Chester
When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.
~ Franklin P. Jones
As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
~ Anohni
All things on earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honour is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your heart.
~ Olive Schreiner
Wisdom will not open her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price in self-sacrifice, in hard work. Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price. Success is on sale in the world market place. All who are willing to pay the price can buy it.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
~ Orson Scott Card
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
~ Oscar Wilde