Trinkets Quotes
30 quotes by 24 authors
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
— Gerry Spence
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to…
— Elsa Schiaparelli
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You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to…
— Ray Charles
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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children…
— Gautama Buddha
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The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.
— Marshall McLuhan
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who…
— Donald Miller
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If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already gone. Life is…
— Alan Cohen
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Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind…
— Jim Rohn
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Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy…
— Ernie J Zelinski
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If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get…
— Frederick Lenz
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I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?
— Evgeny Morozov
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Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight…
— Grant Morrison
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
— Sylvia Plath
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The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you…
— Suzanne Collins
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Unfortunately, I can't seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that," says Effie grimly. "But don't worry, I'll get him to the…
— Suzanne Collins
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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
Who Wrote These Trinkets Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 30 Trinkets Quotes as follows: