Bid Quotes
204 quotes by 161 authors
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
— David Oyelowo
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I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.
— Emmitt Smith
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If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
— Noam Chomsky
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I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to…
— Isaac Newton
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Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to…
— Jon Stewart
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We are bid to take, not to make our cross.
— William Gurnall
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You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead…
— Neil Gaiman
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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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[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot…
— William Ernest Henley
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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle…
— Steve Sabol
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The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
— Socrates
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Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.
— Countee Cullen
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I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
— Sophie Kinsella
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I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.
— Bob Dylan
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Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.
— Bob Dylan
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The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from…
— James Morcan
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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /…
— William Butler Yeats
Who Wrote These Bid Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 204 Bid Quotes, led by these top contributors: