High Prices Quotes

• I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Done, Pay, Cases

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• The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Intelligent, Risk

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.154, Baker Books

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Grateful, Men

  The Rambler, No 87, January 15, 1751.

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• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Voice, Trying, Difficult

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• In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

  Will Cotton

  Expectations, Atmosphere, Gallery

  "Cotton Candy Man". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

  Concha Buika

  Style, Movement, Notes

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• Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

  William Hague

  Government, Forever, Use

  "Nato to take control in Libya after US, UK and France reach agreement" by Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I do things my way and I pay a high price.

  John Mellencamp

  Pay, Way, Egotism

  Song: Minutes To Memories, Album: Scarecrow

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• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Children, America, Black

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• Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables.

  Paul Hawken

  Years, Oil, Charging

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, Context Institute (p. 17), www.context.org. Summer 1995.

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• High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

  Carl Hart

  Journey, Discovery, Self

  "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society". Book by Carl Hart, June 11, 2013.

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• Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Land, World

  Quoted by Ariel Sharon in "The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs" documentary, 1999.

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• I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Vacation, Germany, Firsts

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• I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

  Bill Veeck

  Leadership, Sports, Mind

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• Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Bears, Sometimes, Strive

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• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Issues, Attention

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• I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

  Henri Matisse

  Fetch, Saws, Embarrassed

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every partner in the value chain including airports and air navigation service providers.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Airports, Priorities, Battle

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• You talk about the [armed] service teaches you how to depend on each other, the service makes you aware of the common good and strips that down. Guys who go into service get to have that. But that's a high price to pay in this day and time with going into service.

  Jerry Jones

  Guy, Pay, Common

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Children, Heart, Mean

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• The effect of metals speculation was to push up the prices that China had to pay to countries like Australia. This squeezed China. Once the speculative demand ended, all of a sudden the added production facilities that had been brought into production by the high prices went out of production again, and there was a glut.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Australia, Demand

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

  Michael Hudson

  Oil, Arabia, Fracking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.

  Carl Hart

  People, Research, Labs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are realms of American life in which government has undermined the operation of market forces and caused artificially high prices. These are two arenas in which the Democrats now propose to do exactly the wrong thing. Their reform reinforces old errors and will infinitely compound the problem of rising prices.

  Mona Charen

  Rising Prices, Two, Issues

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