Quotes About Commodity

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest American commodity.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

I didn't like the name 'personal shopper.' That makes it sound like too much of a commodity and not personal enough.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

To me, beauty is a commodity and that's the way it's treated in my books. It has power, and though that power is limited, some characters understand that better than others.

Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff.

One of the most important axioms is that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance plain food, which a man has to consume increases, so the utility or benefit from the last portion used decreases in degree.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

Smith argued that two conditions were necessary for labor to produce the maximum amount of wealth: perfect competition among sellers—everyone pursuing his or her selfish interest, the famous "invisible hand"—and the complete freedom of buyers to substitute one commodity for another.