Buying Quotes - Page 17

• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• Peace might sell, but who's buying?

  Joan Baez

  Might, Sells

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• If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, People, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Dog, Cat, Play

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.30, Vintage

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• Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it.

  Avi

  Love You, Kissing, Aunt

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• Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Struggle, Impact, People

  "Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 21, 2008.

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• After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

  Robert Breault

  Nice, Skeletons, Years

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• We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

  Eva Herzigova

  Travel, Airplane, Tickets

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• Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

  Roy H. Williams

  Life, Money, Insightful

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• Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

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• It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

  John Jay Chapman

  Enemy, Reform, Prejudice

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Science, Technology, Teeth

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Liberty, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

  Gerry Harvey

  Business, Confused, Buying Things

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• It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, Thinking, Dust

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• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, People, Use

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• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

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• A woman is always buying something.

  Ovid

  Funny, Buying Something

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• The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

  Gene Hoffman

  Song, Technology, Cds

  "New software puts latest tunes a click away" by Don Knapp, www.cnn.com. December 10, 1998.

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• I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

  Gerry Adams

  Sunday, Years, News

  "Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a subversive'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

  Nick Mason

  Wine, Choices, Ferrari

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

  Robyn

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  "The Beginning of Everything". Book by Robyn Schneider, August 27, 2013.

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• The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Decision, Favors, Stuff

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2016

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