Purchased Quotes

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

The future is purchased by the present.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Purchased experiences don't count.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.