History Quotes / PowerAtAPrice

-->-- '''Rumpelstiltskin''''s {{Catchphrase}}, ''Series/OnceUponATime''

-->-- Inscription on '''[[EvilWeapon Frostmourne's]]''' pedestal, ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos]]''

->'''Ridcully''': We are a university, Mr Stibbons, not a bandage. We can't just wave a magic wand and make everything better.\\
'''Ponder''': Actually, sir--\\
'''Ridcully''': Yes, yes, all right, I know. We ''can'' just wave a magic wand and make everything better. Except, of course, that making everything better by magic only makes things much, much worse!

->'''Ares:''' You cannot save them, Kratos. You gave them up in your quest for ultimate power. There is a price to pay for ''everything'' you gain.\\

'''Ares:''' ''No'' price is too high for what ''I OFFERED!''

->'''Ridcully''': This is a university, not a bandage. We can't just wave a magic wand and make everything better.\\

->''"[[IllGirl I]] spent all morning in the hospital, injecting poison into my body, on purpose. Toxic chemical designed to kill the cancer cells growing inside me. But as soon as I picked up the hammer, that was all for nothing. The transformation neutralizes the effects of the chemotherapy. It purges the poison from my body. But not the cancer. Because cancer is just another part of me now. A part that keeps getting bigger and is killing me a little bit more each time I change back."''

->'''Ares:''' "''You cannot save them Kratos. You gave them up in your quest for ultimate power. There is a price to pay for '''everything''' you gain.''"
->'''Kratos''': "''Not that price... I didn't want '''them''' to die.''"
->'''Ares''': "'''''No''' price is too high for what '''I OFFERED!'''''"
-->-- '''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'''

-->-- '''Rumpelstiltskin's''' CatchPhrase, ''Series/OnceUponATime''

-->-- '''ComicBook/JaneFoster''', ''ComicBook/Thor2014''

-> To darkest depths I pledge my soul,
-> And crush my heart to burning coal,
-> To summon forth the deathly power,
-> To see my hated foe devoured!
-->-- Eclipsa's Curse, ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''

->''"Magic isn't free. There's always a cost. [...] If there '''was''' a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? [[CardCarryingVillain For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby]]."''
-->-- Black Mage, ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->'''Zombieman''': You're really telling me that someone could obtain all that strength, without any consequences?
->'''Dr. Genus''': No. He paid a high price for it. In exchange for his boundless strength, [[PlayedForLaughs he became bald]].
->'''Dr. Genus''': [[ZigZaggingTrope What's more]], that very strength also brought him boundless alienation... it was written all over his face... in one blow, he utterly destroyed the strongest warrior we had ever created, and yet...

-->-- '''VideoGame/GodOfWar'''

-->-- Eclipsa's Curse, StarVsTheForcesOfEvil

-->-- Black Mage, '''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->''M"agic isn't free. There's always a cost. [...] If there '''was''' a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? [[CardCarryingVillain For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby]]."''

->''Magic isn't free. There's always a cost. [...] If there '''was''' a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? [[CardCarryingVillain For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby]].''

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-->-- Black Mage, '''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

-->''Magic isn't free. There's always a cost. [...] If there '''was''' a way to get magic for free, do you really think I'd have spent so much time sacrificing children to my dark gods? [[CardCarryingVillain For spells, I mean. Obviously there'd still be sacrifices. A hobby's a hobby]].''

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--> '''Rumpelstiltskin's''' CatchPhrase, ''Series/OnceUponATime''

--> '''Rumpelstiltskin's''' CatchPhrase, {{Series/OnceUponATime}}

-->-- '''GodOfWar'''