Auction Quotes
51 quotes by 45 authors
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no…
— Edmund Burke
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I…
— James Lee Burke
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
— Maya Angelou
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
— H. L. Mencken
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If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the…
— Peter R. Orszag
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The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction…
— Brian Miller
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This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?
— Jennifer Lawrence
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The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
— Margaret Thatcher
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
— Ann Richards
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The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth.…
— Bob Horner
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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse…
— Edgar Degas
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What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment†of one’s private property…
— Vin Suprynowicz
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It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
— Paul Lynde
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
— A. Alfred Taubman
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Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen…
— Sibel Edmonds
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I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a…
— Neil Gaiman
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You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to…
— James Lee Burke
Who Wrote These Auction Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 51 Auction Quotes, led by these top contributors: