Quotes about High Prices

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Votes: 4

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices. Votes: 4

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people. Votes: 3

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. Votes: 3

The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005. Votes: 3

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product. Votes: 3

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. Votes: 3

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting. Votes: 3

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline. Votes: 3

... it is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance ... Votes: 3

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption. Votes: 3

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. Votes: 3

You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over. Votes: 3

Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business. Votes: 3

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit. Votes: 3

Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that. Votes: 3

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be. Votes: 3

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States. Votes: 3

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. Votes: 3

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Votes: 2

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Votes: 2

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. Votes: 2

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. Votes: 2

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Votes: 2

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. Votes: 2

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high. Votes: 2

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost. Votes: 2

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. Votes: 2

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. Votes: 2

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. Votes: 2

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that. Votes: 2

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.' Votes: 2

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice. Votes: 2

I'm liking the different types of tights that you can wear with high heels. There are lots of different colors and textures. Votes: 2

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past. Votes: 2

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying. Votes: 2

Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high. Votes: 2

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now. Votes: 0

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices. Votes: 0

Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. Votes: 0

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high. Votes: 0

We hate to be cheering for high gas prices. The reality is that's what's happening. Votes: 0

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11. Votes: 0

The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support. Votes: 0

I would take a trip down Memory Lane, but with gas prices sky high, forget about it. Votes: 0

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted. Votes: 0

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. Votes: 0

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession. Votes: 0

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war. Votes: 0

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Votes: 0

Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like. Votes: 0

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight. Votes: 0

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. Votes: 0

Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles Votes: 0

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. Votes: 0

High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. Votes: 0

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. Votes: 0