"Nothing important happens in life without a cost."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking Quotes #Important Quotes #Cost Quotes

“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”
“UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.”
“There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.”

Source : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
“Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.”
“It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.”

Source : "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.
“Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.”
“Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.”
“Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.”

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