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Grief is the price we pay for love. -- Queen Elizabeth II
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. -- Isadora Duncan
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. -- James Agate
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. -- Robert Casey
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. -- Isabelle Holland
Grief is the price we pay for love -- Elizabeth II
Flies are the price we pay for summer. -- Ann Zwinger
Error is the price we pay for progress. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it. -- Eartha Kitt
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success -- John C. Maxwell
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. -- Jean Baudrillard
Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it. -- Joe De Sena
The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it -- Carl Sagan
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it. -- Javan
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. -- Steve Maraboli
Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want. -- Alex Himelfarb
Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses. -- Mark Rippetoe
Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain. -- Judith Viorst
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. -- Adlai Stevenson I
Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order. -- Alain de Botton
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. -- Sigmund Freud
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. -- Mark Skousen
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
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them. -- Daniel Gilbert
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible. -- Thomas Sowell
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his. -- James A. Baldwin
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. -- Bill Moyers
The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results. -- Peter Cundill
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth. -- Steven Pinker
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward. -- Norman Cousins
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected. -- Thomas Sowell
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable. -- Saint Augustine
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. -- Mark Skousen
The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives. -- Jacob Bronowski
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket. -- Anna Lappe
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. -- H. L. Mencken
If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price. -- Michael Enzi
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest. -- Chris Christie
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. -- Ed Smith
We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere. -- Jerry Kramer
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow. -- William J. H. Boetcker
Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it. -- Jermaine Jackson
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation. -- Martin Feldstein
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. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals. -- Peter Singer
We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities. -- David Price
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. -- Euripides
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. -- John W. Gardner
Hard work is the price we must pay for success -- Vince Lombardi
We must pay a price if we are to become priceless. -- Elizabeth George
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it. -- Walter Savage Landor
Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay. -- Omar N. Bradley
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. -- Rudyard Kipling
Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy? -- Ray Davies
To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price -- Vince Lombardi
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -- John F. Kennedy
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. -- K.P. Yohannan
We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did. -- Bill Hybels
until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously. -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods -- Kevin Bales
If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying. -- Norman Lamont
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. -- Barack Obama
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves. -- Soseki Natsume
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. -- Norman Lamont
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. -- Anthony Browne
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility. -- Mike Cloud
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization. -- Murray Rothbard
We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it. -- H. L. Mencken
In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. -- W. H. Auden
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day -- Gifford Pinchot
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. -- Gifford Pinchot
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish. -- Robert H. Jackson
If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers. -- Mario Draghi
Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best. -- Eknath Easwaran
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