42 Quotes About Penalties


  • Author Alfred North Whitehead
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    No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

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  • Author Loretta Young
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    Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

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