Exacts Quotes

30 quotes by 23 authors

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price… — Sam Nunn
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. — Seneca the Younger
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. — Tom Hanks
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words,… — Walter Bagehot
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,… — Jack Donovan
Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by… — Peter Kropotkin
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated — John Dewey
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to… — Tama J. Kieves
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother… — William Osler
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from… — William Hazlitt
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our… — Frank Serpico
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the… — Amelia Earhart
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we… — AndrÃ© Aciman
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most… — Cesar Chavez
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — William Hazlitt

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