Margaret Atwood Quotes

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

For everything you gain, you lose something.

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

You pay a price for everything in life.

I don't like being treated differently.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

There's always a price for what you want.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

The absence of shared sacrifice in this country shames us.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.