Trade Quotes - Page 36

• We need more expensive gasoline to change consumer behavior," Mr. Jackson said. Otherwise, Americans will continue to favor big vehicles, not matter what kind of fuel-economy standards the government imposes on auto makers. Four dollars a gallon, he added, "is a good start.

  Michael J. Jackson

  Government, Energy, Fuel Economy

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• Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

  John Locke

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

  Seth

  Desire, Difficult, Offers

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• But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

  Herman Gorter

  Party, Struggle, Mean

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• To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Law

  Following the Equator ch. 37, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

  Bobby Vinton

  Education, Thinking, Decision

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• If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

  Richard Price

  New York, Book, Character

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• Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

  Brad Pitt

  Math, Age, Youth

  "Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button" by Reed Johnson, articles.latimes.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Achieving sustainable ways of living is inextricably linked to how we organize work in the future. State of the World 2014 makes an important contribution by illustrating how trade unions, far from being outdated, will be at the forefront of a just transition. It is a challenging compilation?coming at exactly the right time.

  Sharan Burrow

  Challenges, Important, World

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• As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Warning, World, Firsts

  "Listen to the Admiral". Interview with Ann Louise Bardach, www.slate.com. December 16, 2004.

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• Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Memorable, Comfort, Duration

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Wind, Sky

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

  John Gay

  Agreement, Two, Age

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.47

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• Trade is a social act.

  John Stuart Mill

  Business, Social

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.107, Taylor & Francis

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• The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in

  Cormac McCarthy

  Wise, Horse, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground; have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Coffee, Thinking, Views

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

  Eric Davis

  Games, Names, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Wall, Writing, Down And

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• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  Adam Smith

  Complaining, Decay, Prosperity

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.60, Harriman House Limited

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• The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

  Adam Smith

  Opposites, Competition, Different

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.107

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• That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

  Adam Smith

  Competition, Branches, Able

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.190

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• Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

  John Locke

  Veins, Want, Improvement

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.537

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• Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Kings, Nero, Moles

  Jeremy Taylor (1859). “The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry”, p.11

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