A Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Politics Heavy Paid Price Too

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Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian - Statesman
Born: March 2, 1931

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

Ed Balls

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

James Baldwin

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

Daniel Quinn

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Lloyd Alexander

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

Dianne Reeves

My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

Larry Holmes

We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.

Paul Washer

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

James E. Faust

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Benjamin Graham

Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

William J. Clinton

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Daniel Berrigan

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.