The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.
James F. Byrnes

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope