Quotes About Bartered

Humph. Like hell. James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to make her own decisions, her own choices. It saddened her

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

It's when freedom isn't freedom at all that the confusion of time soon becomes a confusion of soul. It doesn't take long to figure out that to have no fixed time for the major parts of life is to have bartered our freedom away.

for most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country. That endowment is being bartered away by our elites in exchange for votes, for profits, or for campaign dollars.

Indeed, the path to a life without empathy is a long and painful one, full of bartered humanity sold at a steep discount.

Letters I've never sent. This life we're only renting. Battered the world is - bartered - wander over it the stars finding us wanting.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.