Life Exchange Quotes

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

You can buy life only with life.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

If any man wishes to exchange his life for mine, there is nothing that can prevent it.

So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?