Bargain Quotes

226 quotes by 195 authors

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for? — Charles Williams
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. — E. W. Howe
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut… — Evelyn Waugh
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which… — Diana Gabaldon
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms,… — William Shakespeare
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture… — Seth Godin
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. — Ursula K. Le Guin
If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and… — Harold S. Kushner
I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as… — Lisa Kleypas
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for… — Stephen Levine
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable… — Jim Elliot
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says,… — Jerome Lawrence
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love. — Leonard Cohen
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise. — Cormac McCarthy
For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all oneâ€™s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me.… — Lisa Ann Sandell
It wasnâ€™t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didnâ€™t burst… — Laini Taylor
...magic was uglyâ€”-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain. — Laini Taylor

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