Sells Quotes - Page 3

• The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, People, Paper

  Margaret Atwood (1997). “Alias Grace”

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• That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Jobs, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Heretic's Apprentice”, p.129, Head of Zeus

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• The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

  Susan Cain

  Pressure, Anxious

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.31, Broadway Books

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Wise, Sweet

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Heart, Dark

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• Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

  Lauren Graham

  Writing, Actors, Should

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

  Isabel Allende

  Land, Gone, Should

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• Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Home, Writing

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• In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

  Charles Revson

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  In A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976) ch. 8

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• Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

  Karl Marx

  Motivational, Business, Humorous

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• Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Business, Ice, Alcohol

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• It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Digital Age, Digital Marketing

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• I told you to sell it, not give it away.

  Jerome Robbins

  Dance, Giving

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• Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

  Og Mandino

  Congratulations, Failure, Next

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Records, Poultry

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future ... for America is the product of our freedoms.

  Edward Francis Hutton

  Freedom, Mean, America

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• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  Graduation, People, Luck

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Humor, Deep Thought, Your Presence

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
  Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
  Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
  Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

  Rumi

  Life, Love Is, Intuition

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Records, Jazz

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• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Patriotism, United States

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.359, Vintage

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, War

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