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- You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide… — 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… — 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… — Walter Bagehot
- Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a… — Jack Donovan
- Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been… — 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… — 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… — William Osler