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152 Purchased quotes by 132 unique authors

We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that… — John Piper
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!… — Patrick Henry
Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with earthly possessions, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were… — Dennis Lehane
She wandered over to the enclosed range, a rather modern-looking contraption that Cook had purchased earlier in the year. "Do you know how to work… — Julia Quinn
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. — Glen Duncan
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. — Russell Brand
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have… — Donald Miller
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is… — Oscar Wilde
There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice. — Mindy Kaling
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people… — Walker Percy
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life… — Robert A. Heinlein
You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. — Steven Pressfield
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of… — Khaled Hosseini
The future is purchased by the present. — Samuel Johnson
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving… — Thomas F. Wilson
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,… — Stephen Covey
From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find… — Rajneesh
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your… — Ezra Taft Benson
In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey… — Jane Leavy
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money. — Tyrone Hayes

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