Quotes About Reciprocity

My debt to you, Belov

We all feed on one another. Such occasional little sparks of kindliness—that's something one shouldn't allow to be taken away. It strengthens one for a difficult life.

If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.

OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.

The observation of an object by an observer results in an equivalent observation of the observer by the observed object.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

The game is called," said the witcher slowly, "don't do unto others what you would not have them do to you.' You don't have to

Shit and cabbage always go hand in hand,' Percival Schuttenbach said pithly. 'One drives the other. It's a perpetum mobile.

Ma ci sono cose... che non si possono ottenere neppure con la magia. E ci sono doni che non si possono ricevere se non si è in grado di ricambiare... con qualcosa di altrettanto prezioso. In caso contrario, un tale dono scivola tra le dita, si scioglie come una scheggia di ghiaccio stretta in mano. Rimane solo il rimpianto, un sentimento di perdita e di torto subito...

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.

It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

You never want to bite the hand that feeds you, but you also do not want to be aiding and abetting problematic behavior.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.

Eye for an Eye' is super-simple, super-catchy, but very effective.