Exchange Quotes
678 Exchange quotes by 554 unique authors
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Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political…
— Pat Conroy
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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It…
— Marilynne Robinson
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We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it could be helped.…
— Rachel Vincent
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called…
— Jane Austen
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Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it.…
— Erin Hunter
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You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that…
— Isak Dinesen
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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.…
— Tom Stoppard
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
— Alexandre Dumas
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The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;…
— Thomas Mann
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This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to…
— Mira Grant
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Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised…
— Philip Zimbardo
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I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her…
— Melissa Marr
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If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange,…
— James Hillman
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Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that…
— Deepak Chopra
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The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people…
— Steig Larsson
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has…
— Karl Marx
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The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place…
— Milton Friedman
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these…
— Jean Cocteau
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming,…
— Charles Bukowski
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