Price Quotes - page 4

So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia. (Frank Carlucci)
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. View quote
Louis Leakey
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women. View quote
Mark Kennedy
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. View quote
John Updike
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. View quote
Antonin Scalia
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. View quote
Andrew Jackson
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. View quote
Alain de Botton
Problems are the price you pay for progress. View quote
Branch Rickey
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. (Michael Shermer)
Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price. View quote
Edmund Cooper
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price. View quote
Paulo Coelho
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. View quote
Ayn Rand
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly. (Thomas Malthus)
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Terrorism is the price of empire. If we do not wish to pay it, we must give up the empire. View quote
Pat Buchanan
The price of peace is eternal vigilance. View quote
George C. Marshall