Bargains Quotes - Page 2

• A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it

  Harvey Mackay

  Dream, Pay, Matter

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Oct 17, 2011

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• Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

  Greg Walden

  Power, Unions, Corporations

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Yield, Comfort

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• A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Unhappy, Sides, Fairs

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.801, Bantam

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Sports, Military

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• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  B. C. Forbes

  Yield, Satisfaction, Bargaining

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• You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Promise, Pay, Too Much

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Littles

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• 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 are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay The Price, People, Grumbling

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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. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Travel, Rain, Ambition

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• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

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• Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Thinking, Losing

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• If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

  Meir Kahane

  Political, Doe, Hiv

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• Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loss, Pie, People

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.345, Macmillan

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• To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

  Earl Wilson

  Women, Men, Sells

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• I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

  Richard Trumka

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, President

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

  Charles Williams

  Bargaining

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.193, Charles Williams

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• 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 to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Lying, Kissing

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.215, Dial Press

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• One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

  E. W. Howe

  Cost, World, Difficult

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• If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Ideas, Cost

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• With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Writing, Night, Giving

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Pain, Gambling

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• When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

  Judith Miller

  Mean, Antiques, Entrances

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• ...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Magic, Ugly

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