A Quote by Dora Russell
Comfort is bought at too high a price.
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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.
The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.
The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.
Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high.
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.
My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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