Quotes About Reciprocity

Nobody else gets all of me. Only you." He brushed my hair off of my cheek. "I only expect one thing in exchange." I raised my eyebrows. "What would that be?" "All of you.

The reason Big Pharma spends so much on small gifts as well as the big ones is well known to marketers, lobbyists, and social psychologists: being given a gift evokes an implicit desire to reciprocate.

The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

To give is to receive...

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

Render therefore to all their dues.

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Zivot nam vraca samo ono sto mi drugima dajemo.

Sve mu daj, a uzmi mu zdravlje, pa kao da mu ništa dao nisi.

An eye for an eye." "That's a revenge thing, right? From some play." "The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

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Tis I who should thank you for the gift of your flesh." Looming

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

God is an Indian giver who gives only occasionally.