Buying Quotes - Page 19

• I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.

  Kim Harrison

  Safety, Sick, Soul

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• I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

  Libba Bray

  Going Away, Looks, Mouths

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• you gotta think it’s a waste of—” “Ray!” I glanced around, but there was nobody within earshot. “Well, excuse me if I’m not used to buying condoms for aliens,” he said more softly. “They’re not aliens.” “Well, they’re not human. I mean, they could have anything under those tunics, you know?

  Karen Chance

  Mean, Thinking, Rays

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• Amber, you could never embarrass me." "Never?" she asked. "Never." "One time, I yelled across the store to Mom and asked her if she wanted the regular or the super-absorbent tampons. I added that, according to the box, the super-absorbent were for those heavy days. Then I asked her to rate her heaviness on a scale of one to ten." "Okay, you could." "Then while we were standing in line, I asked her why she was buying three boxes of Summer's Eve in the middle of winter." I set her at arm's length. "Wow." "I know, right? I had no idea a person could turn so red.

  Darynda Jones

  Summer, Mom, Winter

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.150, St. Martin's Press

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• No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

  Anne Tyler

  Couple, Nurse, Want

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• A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Men, Islands

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Lying, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

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• [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

  Daniel Handler

  Ice Cream, Color, Reason

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• Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

  Stephen King

  Business, People, Jogging

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Hate, Years, Paris

  The New York Times, September 15, 1960.

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• China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

  Bernard Arnault

  Numbers, Population, Wealth

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• Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Success, Positive Thinking

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• If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Mistake, Mean

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• I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, People, Community

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• Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Running, Stupid

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

  Valerie Plame

  Wall, War, College

  "Is Obama's Nuclear Security Summit More Than a Symbolic Gesture?" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. April 12, 2010.

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• Buying wine is a political act.

  Jonathan Nossiter

  Wine, Political

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• All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.

  Shailene Woodley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

  Marc Maron

  Suicidal, Gun, Wife

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• One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

  Bernard Marcus

  Educational, Home, Successful

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• When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Educational, Community, Pairs

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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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